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I have install MINIX 3.20 on VMware player on LINUX. Now, I am trying to ssh into Minix from the same Linux machine, but I am encountering some problems. First I installed openssh on MINIx then I tried to ssh onto the Minix virtual machine with ssh root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx but I got the following output:

root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx's password: 
Permission denied, please try again. 
root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx's password:  
Permission denied, please try again.
root@xxx.xxx.x.xxx's password: 
Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

I am sure the password I entered is correct, I have tried to ssh into MINIX on MINIX and it worked but not when I tried it from my linux machine. I have followed the steps for setting up ssh from this webpage, but it didn't work as shown above.

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Edit /usr/pkg/etc/ssh/sshd_config and set PermitRootLogin to yes, remove root user from DenyUsers list.

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I don't see a DenyUsers list in there and PermitRootLogin is already set to yes. Do you think something else is causing the problem? – Mark Nov 12 '12 at 20:25
The only other issue I can think of is a wrong IP address. – FINESEC Nov 12 '12 at 22:17

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