[6.9 RC-1] Unable to login via SSH

Updated to 6.9 RC-1 from 6.8.3 and just realized I cant login via SSH now, only able to by the webui terminal. 

Dec 14 10:25:21 Tower sshd[9274]: Postponed keyboard-interactive for root from 192.168.1.12 port 63402 ssh2 [preauth]
Dec 14 10:25:21 Tower sshd[9349]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.168.1.12  user=root
Dec 14 10:25:23 Tower sshd[9274]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from 192.168.1.12
Dec 14 10:25:23 Tower sshd[9274]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 192.168.1.12 port 63402 ssh2
Dec 14 10:25:23 Tower sshd[9274]: Postponed keyboard-interactive for root from 192.168.1.12 port 63402 ssh2 [preauth]

I'm using the same password as the webui. 

Not sure if it's relate but when I try to login directly (keyboard connected to server) the screen would lock up right after I enter in the user name and push return. I dont see the password line nor push return multiple of times would do anything. 

Also I noticed this

Quote

There are changes in /etc/ssh/sshd_conf to improve security

are the files suppose to be _conf or _config? I see this in my /boot/config/ssh

# ls *conf*
ssh_config  sshd_config