That's by design.
You should never log in remotely as root directly. If your password were the slightest bit insecure, you could be open to a brute-force password attack, and your whole system can be compromised.
As an alternative, add your user to the wheel group. That allows you to use the su command to gain root priviledges. Either that, or study up on the sudo command, which gives a finer-grained control on who can do what, and with what priviledges.
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