SSH Login Problem (New Setup)

[TerryG]

hi, i am new to the Raspberry Pi world, having just got my first board, i have been a long time Arch Linux user but i seem to be facing a problem with Arch ARM, i have followed the directions on the PI2 setup page
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/broadcom/raspberry-pi-2#qt-platform_tabs-ui-tabs2')

all goes well until i try and access the pi via SSH, i have tried root@192.168.0.8 (this is the IP address assigned by the router) and i enter root as the password as suggested in the last line of the setup instructions
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'The default root password is root.')
however i get permission denied error and after 3 attemptes its fails, i have also tried using alarm@192.168.0.8 and using alarm as the password as suggested in the setup instructions and again the same problem happens, i have also tried swapping the passwords (hey just for giggles like i know that will never work but try everything right? )

has anyone got any experiance with this error.

on a side not i have tried placing the micro SD card back in to my card reader and the root partition is not accesable to my main Arch install so i can not modify or read through any of the ssh config files.

Thanx In Advance

[WarheadsSE]

You can't log in asroot over ssh without changing the default config.

[TerryG]

i think i may have found 1 problem, every time i run the "sync" command it unmounts my micro SD card, i have re mounted it and managed to copy the boot files and now i get a kernel panic im guessing something during the sync gets interrupted leaving me with an incomplete system. i have no idea why this would be happening.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'Y')ou can't log in asroot over ssh without changing the default config.

[graysky]

Look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to see why... no idea why you can't run sync nor how a live filesystem would get umounted by doing so.

[moonman]

Root *is* available on new installs. You just can't login as root over ssh for security reasons.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'su root')
After you login as alarm