Cannot login ssh using new user account

[lacroix05]

I am trying to create new user with package other then default (gainsboro), so the nameserver will be different with the default admin account.

the new user work, the child-ns work i can access the website, i can login vestacp with new user account, i can login ftp with new user account, but what i cannot do is ssh to new user. when i ssh with putty using the new user account ( i use username and password that i use to login vestacp ), i always get "access denied".

what i already do is changing gainsboro package settings, ssh-access to bash from no-login. but i can still cannot access ssh to new users.

i use debian 9 64 bit for the OS.

or maybe i have wrong perception to how ssh work? i am newbie in all this, so please guide me.

[dreiggy]

Hi,
try check bash shell is enabled for user:

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# grep USER /etc/passwd

The user should have "/bin/bash" or "/bin/sh" shell.

Something like this:

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USER:x:1002:1002:[email protected]:/home/USER:/bin/sh

[lacroix05]

lets say the new username is daddy

after do this command :

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# grep daddy /etc/passwd

i got :

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daddy:x:1001:1001:[email protected]:/home/daddy:/sbin/nologin

it's still nologin from that command? but i already change the gainsboro package to ssh bash.

can you tell me how to change it manually?

[misterpat]

Edit the user directly.

[lacroix05]

image : https://imgur.com/g18LaTs

it's definitely already bash in user settings. it's also already bash in package. is this debian bug? because i heard vestacp is mainly for centos.

[lacroix05]

after all this i choose the most simple solution. reinstall server, reinstall vestacp, then configure the ssh login to bash from the start before creating the user. now it's already working.

[dreiggy]

after all this i choose the most simple solution. reinstall server, reinstall vestacp, then configure the ssh login to bash from the start before creating the user. now it's already working.

You could try manually set bash in passwd file.