Re: Help with my question, please.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM COMCAST <MCBRIDE1956@comcast.net> wrote:
> The question is. What password am I being asked?
It would appear you're attempting to ssh in to access user debian on
whatever that
ssh server on 192.186.0.213 is on or connected to. 192.168.0.0/16 is
RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets, so that's not an
Internet routable IP address
so we have no way to provide you more information about that, but you
do have access to
get more information. E.g. if you use one to three -v options with
that ssh command, what does
it tell you? It might well identify the ssh server, which may better
identify what you're attempting to
access with ssh. It might also provide information or at least hints
as to why the attempts are
failing. But in general one can get much more detail on that by
examine the logs on the ssh server
from the ssh server processes or the like. That will generally tell
one more specifically why it's
failing. Not also that both ssh client and ssh server are generally
quite persnickety about ownerships and
permissions, and if those aren't right it will typically just fail to
authenticate - even if a correct password
was given. So generally best to well look over those logs, and also
carefully check ownerships and
permissions of the relevant files and directories and all their
physical ancestors up through and including
root (/) directory. Even something as simple as wrong ownerships or
permissions on a user's ~/.ssh/
directory or HOME directory or file within or ancestor above, can
prevent ssh client or server from
otherwise operating and authenticating as expected.
And as far as what password - if there even is a matchable password,
that would be question whomever set it.
Is debian even the correct target user, or is that's just what's being
attempted by
default because that's the local user that's running the ssh client command?
> I dearly need to know!
Then you should ask the dear person who set it up. You haven't even
said what it is.
> I've tried my servers password of "fast" and my remote password of
> "raspberry". And it still gives me the same permission error..
> root@debian:/etc/ssh# ssh debian@192.168.0.213
> Debian GNU/Linux 12
> debian@192.168.0.21's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
> debian@192.168.0.21's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
> debian@192.168.0.21's password:
> debian@192.168.0.21: Permission denied (publickey,password).
> root@debian:/etc/ssh#
That "Permission denied" diagnostic from typical ssh servers is quite
generic, and can be caused by any one of many possible reasons, e.g.
wrong password, there is no matchable password, permissions on files
or directories are too stringent and prevent access, or are too weak and
client or server therefore for security reasons denies access, or something
in the configuration prevents access or (completion of) authentication.
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