FreeBSD won’t allow you to login as root through SSH.
This is for security, but i don’t like extra work of login as user and then “su -” to root. So i added
PermitRootLogin yes
to end of /etc/ssh/sshd_config
I still use vi text editor on FreeBSD, its little different than that available in Linux. Few changes are delete key, Home , End keys are not working.
Then restart sshd
/etc/rc.d/sshd restart