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Old 25th September 2008
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Originally Posted by darken View Post
Only the users of the group " wheel " are authorized connect ssh?
Root access is needed to start the server, sshd. Client use does not require root access.
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How to create a new user
A discussion of the commands you need are in the afterboot(8) man page.

The e-mail awaiting root in the default install (the file /var/mail/root) should be helpful, too.
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
...setting PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh_config.
That's the client configuration file. I think you meant sshd_config(5) instead.
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