Unable to connect to SSH on my laptop

Question

I installed SSH server and client using the commands in Ubuntu 13.10

sudo apt-get install ssh

But then I am able to connect using my client to any other ssh server on the network by

ssh username@hostname

But when I try connecting ssh-client on my laptop to itself. It says permission denied, Please try again.

$ : ssh shubhang@10.109.59.55
shubhang@10.109.59.55's password: 
Permission denied, please try again.

Can someone help me with this.

Answer 1

In your /etc/ssh/sshd_config

1. make sure you have the following PasswordAuthentication yes # Default anyway
2. make sure the users is not in DenyUsers and DenyGroups.

This cloud be cause by various reasons (misconfiguration or permissions), the best way is to start both sshd and ssh client in verbose mode.

For example:

sshd

Stop sshd and then run sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -Dd

Client

Connect => ssh user@host -vvv

Look at the debug output and it'll point you to the root cause, most likely.

Answer 2

Instead of ssh try installing openssh, it always works for me.