i just spun up an AMI with amazon and I’m able to SSH in just fine using the key created by amazon. I’ve added a user to the system and set their password and when I try to log in i get “Permission denied (publickey).” when connecting to the server.
spoofy@shell:~$ ssh -v spoofy@honey-aws-west
OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu3, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to honey-aws-west [50.1.1.1] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian- 1ubuntu3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu3 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu3
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA 2f:80:ab:9d:38:35:ae:eb:a2:bf:bc:20:1f:d9:89:62
debug1: Host 'honey-aws-west' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/spoofy/.ssh/known_hosts:7
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/spoofy/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey).
I know that normally its a permissions problem in this situation but I’ve checked those and they seem fine.. also given that i can ssh -i blah.pem in .. i’m guessing it may be a different issue? here is the sshd_config
# Package generated configuration file
# See the sshd(8) manpage for details
# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port 1337
# Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to
#ListenAddress ::
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
Protocol 2
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
#Privilege Separation is turned on for security
UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
ServerKeyBits 768
# Logging
SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO
# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitRootLogin yes
StrictModes yes
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
IgnoreRhosts yes
# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
HostbasedAuthentication no
# Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for RhostsRSAAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
# To enable empty passwords, change to yes (NOT RECOMMENDED)
PermitEmptyPasswords no
# Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with
# some PAM modules and threads)
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
# Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords
PasswordAuthentication no
# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosGetAFSToken no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes
# GSSAPI options
#GSSAPIAuthentication no
#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog yes
TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#MaxStartups 10:30:60
#Banner /etc/issue.net
# Allow client to pass locale environment variables
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
UsePAM yes
the user is not a super user..but does have sudo access.
I assume you mean that you cannot log in to this new user using a password.
First you need to check that ssh_config allows users to log in using a password. Depending on your default setup it may not be a default option.
Also if your new user has superuser permissions, it may also be blocked from loggin in using a password.
UPDATE:
You need to set one or both of these to yes. I don’t remember the second, so try the first one.