I have previously had a successful installation of SuSE 8.2, to which I could connect from a Windows machine running PuTTY using SSH. I could logon as root and administer the Linux machine from elsewhere on the network. I have rebuilt the Linux machine and installed SuSE 9.1. (I did not upgrade, but installed new). My windows machine can still establish a connection via PuTTY/ SSH but I get the following. login as: root Sent username "root" root@linux's password: Access denied I have obvioulsy missed some setting to permit remote logins using SSH. I cannot login remotely as any of the users either. Changes I made when installing were to use LVM to manage my hard disk volumes. I also changed the password encryption technique from the default since my previous password was stated to be too long for the default encryption method. Can anyone suggest where to look. Philip