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Matt Elhotiby
Asked: 2011-02-11 19:10:41 +0800 CST

creating a new user Ubuntu

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I am trying to new user that can sftp on a server....i did this

ubuntu@ip-10-112-46-15:~$ sudo useradd jesse -p testPass
ubuntu@ip-10-112-46-15:~$ sudo passwd jesse
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully

but when i try to login via sftp I cant get in....am i missing something like adding a group or something

the answer was 

PasswordAuthentication yes
ubuntu password ubuntu-10.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    "I can't get in" isn't terribly descriptive. What is the error?

    Why did you give the user a password, and then change it right away?

    The easiest way to debug it is to run sftp in verbose mode:

    sftp -vv jesse@remotehost

    You might not have a valid shell, you might have AllowUsers or AllowGroups in sshd_config, you might be giving the wrong password, you might have password logins turned off...on and on. We need some more info.

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