Why I cannot login remote server with its root Posted on Mar 24, 2018 by Weiwei Jia In QA # ssh root@192.168.122.96 root@192.168.122.96's password: Permission denied, please try again. Do according to [1]. NOTE: on Ubuntu, remember to restart ssh service like this “sudo restart ssh”. [1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/v2v_guide/preparation_before_the_p2v_migration-enable_root_login_over_ssh Read more: I cannot login Ubuntu Precise desktop ‘dd’ command cannot support calculation for its parameters How can I login without password and run command in server at a local machine remotely? How to run screen on a Linux host reporting “Cannot make directory ‘/var/run/screen’: Permission denied”? Why does ; after & lead to unexpected token error in bash on Linux? Cannot start VM with error “no network with matching name ‘default'” Cannot connect QEMU guest os with vncviewer Cannot make directory ‘/var/run/screen/S-apache’: Permission denied