Solarwind, it is a security feature. SSH is not for replacing the console,
it is for getting remote access to your box, and to avoid brute forcing the
root password it is off by default on all modern linux distribution. You
can enable that, it is your call, but I would just create a normal user
instead (what does not sounds right is that as you are saying there is no
normal user on that image by default -- basically that's what you should
do, to create a user and put that to the sudoers, when modifying the image)=
..

Tamas


On 28 September 2012 06:50, V G <x.solarwind.x@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:27 AM, cdb <colin@btech-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > According to the Raspberry Pi website (a good place to look), the defau=
lt
> > login and username is root for the Arch Linux image.
> >
> > Colin
> >
>
> Yes, but sshd had root logins disabled by default. They didn't enable
> "PasswordAuthentication yes PermitRootLogin yes" in the sshd_config, so I
> had to waste my time and modify the image to let me log in as root via SS=
H.
> I have no intention of connecting a keyboard and monitor directly to the
> Raspberry Pi at any point - all of them will operate headless, so I neede=
d
> a way to log in remotely initially.
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