as stated on the title. what are the reasons for getting permission denied on ssh??

APART FROM typing in wrong password, obviously...

-- what happened to me --

i connect two computers by ethernet cables via a router. last night ssh was working fine after reinstalling openssh. today, it stopped working properly again - i get "permission denied", not much of information. -v option gave useless infos. i checked on the net, but there are loads of rubbish on the net that are not really helpful.

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could you all please post all the possible reasons you can think of? please...

Where/when do you get this "permission denied" message ?

Check /var/log/auth.log

You should see what went wrong.

jlinkels

hi thanks for the replies. i actually sorted out my problem

i checked the syslog of the host box, and that gave me a clue to the problem.

the trouble in my case was that my account had already been expired when i tried to access the host. so all i had to do was to change the account setting and extended the expiry date.

cheers

If you reinstall Linux on a computer, you will end up with a new private/public key pair in ~/.ssh. The public key won't match what is in the other hosts ~/.ssh/known_hosts entry for that computer. This will deny you access as well. Either backup the ~/.ssh/ directory before reinstalling or remove the entry in every other host. If you use ssh to connect to a physically remote computer, such as your colo web server, then make sure to backup & restore your ~/.ssh/ directory.

I'd use -vv for PD