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'adduser' cannot login via SSH?
I added an user via the 'adduser' command but it cannot login via SSH..? When I try to login over SSH it keeps saying that the password is wrong. This is on Ubuntu Server 12.04
PS. Adding 'AllowUsers USERNAME' to /etc/ssh/sshd_config is a bad bad idea.. Was unable to connect to SSH at all aftwards (Connection Refused). Had to use OVH's Rescue mode.
Comments
Run
passwdas the new user and set a password.or "passwd " as root
"passwd newuser"
Thanks
It worked out. Sometimes things can be so simple.
useradd should do it all if your on ubuntu / debian
As far as I know, a password-less user is denied shell login on all distros. Feel free to correct me
Assuming that was a response to @exussum, Ubuntu, Debian, and some other distros have an additional utility called
useraddaside from the normaladduser.useraddwill ask a bunch of questions including password, so that it's always set.Not really. It was a general comment on the thread issue, which seemed to be that the user did not have a password. No password, no login -- regardless of distro.
The default OpenSSH server (and the configurations most distributions ship) disables passwordless login, although it can be enabled with this line in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config:PermitEmptyPasswords yesOnly over SSH. You can remove the password and then login via a normal shell (or console/VNC for that matter).