congrats - now is the easy part - first off to be able to get in you will need to use the VI Client to create regular user that has Shell Access enabled - check out page 214 of - once you have created that user use it to long in via putty and run the command su - and you will be asked for the root password - this elevate you to root user status which will allow you to edit the sshd_config file by doing the following:
Using a text editor vi and nano are two examples - I would suggest nano becaue you have a menu at the bottom of the page - nano -w \etc\ssh\sshd_config will allow you to edit the configuration file - when you have made the change hit ctrl-x which will exit you out of nano but will ask if you want to save the changes - once that is done run service sshd restart and this will restart the ssh service. Once this is done you will be able to login as root via putty - but just a word of warning yhis is not the preferred way because it does reduce your security - preferred method is to create users and then su up to root to maintain an audit trail
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