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Greetings!
I just managed to install Solaris 10 on a Sparc based machine. However, there might be a problem with the way ssh is configured.
I CAN ssh from the machine into another on the network (same subnet, as root), but then the newly installed machine CANNOT seem to accept incoming ssh connections properly(directed at root).
When I try to connect to this one, I get stalled right at the authentication- it keeps asking me for the password, unable to authenticate the root properly. Here is what I tried so far-

svcs network/ssh
STATE STIME FMRI
online ..... svc:/network/ssh:default

svscs -d network/ssh :default
STATE STIME FMRI
online svc:/network/loopback:default
online svc:/network/physical:default
online svc:/system/cryptosvc:default
online svc:/system/filesystem/local:default
online svc:/system/utmp:default
online svc:/system/filesysytem/autofs:default

I changed the root password multiple times, changed permissions of the root directory to 755, without any change to the situation.

I'd really appreciate some help at this point.

Thank you in advance,
Ag

SSH is normally configured to not allow the root account to login via SSH, check that /etc/ssh/sshd_config has a line:
PermitRootLogin yes

If it says no then you will need to change it to eys and then kill -1 the root sshd process to make it pick up the configuration change.

Note it is not recommended that you leave PermitRootLogin left set to yes.

Thank you! I'll go though the security issues of the said config..