Allowing root account to ssh

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This post explains how to allow root user to ssh directly to a linux box. This is tested in redhat rhel5 system and works on almost other linux distros.

Open the ssh configuration file
# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Changethe following line
PermitRootLogin no
To
PermitRootLogin yes

Now restart the ssh demon.
/etc/init.d/sshd restart