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I've got a problem, where even though i set a password and try to log in with it, it doesn't work. I created a new user called test with password test. When i try to log in i get "access denied". I tried to re-set the password many times, but that didn't change anything.

Jojo Coana
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Use another to check the log by with sudo tail -f /var/log/secure It shows something like this,

Jul  4 16:24:06 iz2ze86eplnjdk8exdjimjz sshd[17288]: pam_tally2(sshd:auth): user lv (1002) tally 31, deny 5

From the output it shows the reason, then solve it.

For the above case, the user is locked for enter too many uncorrect passwd before.

Check it with pam_tally2 -u lv

Login           Failures    Latest failure     From
lv                  32      07/04/20 16:24:59  115.171.85.163

Reset it with pam_tally2 -u lvi -r --reset

Login           Failures Latest failure     From
lv                 32    07/04/20 16:24:59  115.171.85.163

Check it again pam_tally2 -u lv

Login           Failures Latest failure     From
lv`                   0

After reset on lv, lv can login successful.

Here is the login strategy

cat /etc/pam.d/sshd 1 #%PAM-1.0 2 auth required pam_tally2.so deny=5 unlock_time=600 even_deny_root root_unlock_time=60

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that's possible when there's no profile file created for user. Please verify under /home there's path for user. If there's none, remove user and when creating account for him use -m option to create home directory it will also consists .profile file.

Michal
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Whoops the problem was that i hadn't allowed this user in sshd config.

Jojo Coana
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    Nothing wrong with the answer but adding more detail about what you put in the sshd config to allow the user would make it a better answer for anyone in the future – Drifter104 Jun 02 '16 at 13:48