Why can't I login via SSH as root on a VPS with DirectAdmin?
With our installations of web control panels such as DirectAdmin, cPanel or Plesk, SSH-access for the 'root'-account is disabled by default. This is due to security precautions (on average more than 80% of all brute force attacks on port 22 use 'root' as a user). If you try to log in via SSH as 'root', you will therefore always ...