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ssh root without password on FreeBSD

If you have some toy boards in your internal network, then you can happily live without password and key. As I learned today, setting following stuff in /etc/ssh/sshd_config is not enough:

PermitRootLogin yes
PermitEmptyPasswords yes

You have to edit /etc/pam.d/sshd too and append to pam_unix.so module in auth facility nullok argument. The line will look like:

auth            required        pam_unix.so             no_warn try_first_pass nullok
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