I'm trying to ssh to a server, and I'm sure im entering the correct password, but I get an error that says: Permission denied, please try again.
I've ssh'ed into this server before, and I'm not sure why it's no longer working.
if your .ssh folder has too generous permissions, login will not be possible for security reasons. Try setting the folder's permissions to 700 aka read/write/execute for owner, but nothing for group/other.
Asked: 2013-04-10 20:03:45 -0600
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Please post full error messages here.
ssh -vvv might reveal what't is going wrong.
can you post the error messages or logs ??
If you know the root password, try ssh'ing in as root too. If that works, you can verify that your original user's password is right. If not, more logs please...
Unless the OP has modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the server, logging in as root isn't allowed. However, you might want to make sure that the firewall's allowing the port (22 by default) in and that (assuming the server uses it) there aren't any SELinux alerts there.