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J4N
Asked: 2011-08-09 21:53:21 +0800 CST

Debian: Unable to connect to ssh with a user I just created

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I've a debian 6 installed on a server.

I installed ingres on this server, which runs now with the user "ingres", I want to connect to ssh with the ingres user(for many reason, one of them is that when I do "su ingres", it seems that commands stored in .profile file are not executed).

The user has a /home/ingres folder, bash as console, but when I try to connect I got an "Access denied" error.

When I created the user I didn't specify any user, so I ran the

usermod -pThePasswordHere ingres

and I'm sure that I'm using the same password to connect to ssh.

But I still get my errors:

login as: ingres
[email protected]'s password:
Access denied

What did I miss?

linux debian ssh root

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try using 

    passwd username

    and then type in the password for the user name.

    Also make sure that the password your are entering is correct by typing it slowly. Sometimes I jumple up some letters in my password, so thats a possibility.

    Make sure that ingres was added to the ssh users as well.

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  2. Use the password command to set the password for a user. If you want to script setting the password, take a look at chpasswd.

    What you did when you used usermod -p to set the password was to overwrite the crypted password as it's written in /etc/shadow, so what you would have needed to do to set your password to ThePassword with usermod would have been:

    usermod -p '$6$f2ob/Bhg$EPzlpkg7INdDxeuisOXOffKJddbLUFXdHLe6V7dFUQccLQ2CX9Pu2I8WJam2uZY4peh8EHHeLwwMW5mW3cHwz/' password
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