Allow different users to connect to a ssh server (openSSH)

Asked Dec 01 '21 at 17:02

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I'm new at this: I'm trying to set up a ssh server on my personal computer with openSSH. So far, I was able to connect to my server through my computer and also from a different computer in the same network.

However, I am unable to allow access to different user. I have to put the personal computer user (Mark) in order to access it ([email protected]). When I try with "test" it says "Permission denied".

Here are the lines I added in the sshd_config file:

PasswordAuthentication yes
AllowUsers    test    Mark

I did try to restart the ssh server after the changes,still not working.

Is there something I forgot to do?

Thank you very much!

asked Dec 01 '21 at 17:02

John Baptist

Which release of Ubuntu you use ? In Ubuntu Desktop 21.10 you do not need to configure anything. – pasman pasmański Dec 01 '21 at 17:31
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Each user must have an account on the target system. For `[email protected]` to succeed, there must be a real account with username `test` on that system. For multiple people to login to a single account is generally a bad idea. For multiple people to share files, look at the various forms of FTP instead of SSH. – user535733 Dec 01 '21 at 17:33
Does [this answer](https://askubuntu.com/a/1378157/226614) solve your problem? It wouldn't be quite fair to tag this as a dupe, since the causes for the problem could be many. – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio Dec 01 '21 at 17:51
thank you user535733 it make sense :) – John Baptist Dec 01 '21 at 19:52

Allow different users to connect to a ssh server (openSSH)

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