How to enable SSHD in FreeBSD   February 6th, 2010

Actually you will be asked whether to enable SSH, during a Standard Installation of FreeBSD.

Now, if you need to enable SSH after an installation, open the file rc.conf and add the line ` sshd_enable=”YES” `.

open the file
# vi /etc/rc.conf
Now add the below line to the file.
sshd_enable="YES"

Now start sshd.

# /etc/rc.d/sshd start
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for permitting root login
edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
unhash PermitRootLogin no
and make it
PermitRootLogin yes

if password problem then
add
PasswordAuthentication YES