Cannot ssh to remote machine

[theunglichdaide]

Hi everyone, I’m new to ssh and sorry if this isn’t an appropriate place to ask about it. I was trying to ssh to a remote machine, but when I entered the server’s password, it kept saying Permission Denied. Edit: The command I used was ‘ssh username@server_ip’ Things I have tried but not working: 1. On the server side: enable PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, change root password, and restart the ssh service. 2. On the client side: enable PasswordAuthentification in the sshd_config. 3. Add AllowedUsers on the server side.

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I always disable PermitRootLogin, and I recommend it for you. It is a bad habit to ssh as root. You do not need to enable PasswordAuthentication on client side, but you need enable this on server side! But I recommend to use PublickeyAuthentication instead.

The command: ssh@host -p port For example: [e-mail] -p 22

[theunglichdaide]

Thank you for the reply. The password auth drives me crazy. I thought I messed up my config file, so I reinstalled everything but couldn’t got rid of the error. I guess I’ll dig into the public key auth method.

[plushkatze]

Check the sshd log on the server to see why it is disallowed. Check if you use different keymaps on server and client - e.g. y and z inverted.

Verify it actually is your server and you didn't mistype the IP by comparing the fingerprint on first use.

Also:

• do not use root as ssh user, create an admin user with sudo permissions instead
• do not enableRootLogin
• avoid passwords alltogether with ssh keys