Enabling The Root Account

Enabling The Root Account

By default the root account is disabled, but you can enable it by using this command and giving it a password

sudo passwd root

Now you can log into your pi as the root user.  Whilst this opens up security concerns its sometimes very useful, for instance when developing with netbeans and remotely running applicaiotn that access the IO pins.

If it doesn’t work check the ssh config

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Search for PermitRootLogin and change it to yes

You can undo logging in as root again using this command

sudo passwd -l root