Might want want to add "-m" to create a home directory.  Perhaps the lack of 
home directory is what your initial problem was.

Also, it is very bad to login remotely as root, that is why it is disabled out 
of the box.  I reccomend turning that back off, and logging in as a regular 
user and than use "su" to get to a root account.  To do this, you just need 
to add that user account to the "wheel" group in /etc/group

Much safer, as an attacker now needs to be able to login as both a user, and a 
root login to do serious damage to your system ;)

On Thursday 28 April 2005 2:37 pm, you wrote:
> Ups,
>
> sorry you are right there.  After changing that
> line in sshd_conf I could log in as root.
>
> Without noticeing I always must have used a user
> account in the past. And will create one for good
> practice.
>
> But I remembered that I also tried as user. So I created
> a user-account and, well, sshd doesn't let me in!
>
> Okay, so what's the differance in the way I created the
> account? I found the following:
>
> when I create an account with
>
> useradd -s ksh ...... <user>
> passwd <user> ...
>
> I /cannot/  login remotely via ssh.
>
> I do locally change the shell: chsh -s csh
>
> Now I /can/ login remotely via ssh!
>
> I change back the shell: chsh -s ksh
>
> I still can log-in remotely. I repeated this with two accounts,
> so I don't think that I always misstyped on the first ocasion,
> but typed correctly on the second one.
>
> Since this seams quite weired, I want to ask you to repeat this
> befor I file a pr. In the past I created the accounts with the default
> shell and changed later with usermod (usually to bash). So I never
> ran into this.
>
> Rudi