SSH root login

First, I realize the security issues with doing this and its for a test system NOT production.

With that said, I want to scp/ssh to my test server (FreeBSD 8.2). I have edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config and uncommented/changed to
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PermitRootLogin yes
and restarted sshd.

It won't allow me to login with my password.

when I run sshd in debug mode, the last error that seems relevant is
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unrecognized authentication method name: password

I must be missing something that enables passwords over ssh? google has led me to several pages that suggest what I have done is all I need to do?

I'm sure I'm missing something easy here. This is a fresh 8.2 standard install, with no packages added yet.
 
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