Comments on: Synology: enable ssh user login other than root

By: Wouter Berkepeis

Wouter Berkepeis — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:55:47 +0000

I can confirm Kevin’s solution and on top of that, just changing the /etc/passwd file even solves the same problem when trying to log in using publickey authentication

By: Th

Th — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:49:47 +0000

auto-replying to myself: closed! Sometimes reading further helps…

By: Th

Th — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:41:32 +0000

OK, now I can not log in as root any more and if I login as my user I can not edit the sshd_config back to allow root login.
using “sudo” does not seem to work either.
Help!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:26:44 +0000

Why so complicated, just changing /etc/passwd worked on my box.

By: Peter Schmidtke

Peter Schmidtke — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:28:12 +0000

Thanks for the post, indeed very useful and working perfectly well on a DS509+. By default on new Synology boxes (I suppose) the ssh protocol 2 is enabled.

By: Åke Rahlén

Åke Rahlén — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:25:18 +0000

Step 7:kill -HUP `pidof sshd`which means "send signal hangup to process-number of the running sshdeamon". The Hangup-signal forces the sshd to reload its settings.