Opening FreeBSD SSH Access

Follow the steps below to remotely access your FreeBSD installed server via SSH.

1- There must be sshd_enable="YES" in the /etc/rc.conf file.

2- To access SSH with the root user, the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file must contain PermitRootLogin yes and there must be no comment line.

(Remove if there is a # at the beginning.)

3- Restart the SSH service with the command below and try to connect via ssh again.

service sshd restart