By mattrindia
I created a new droplet in SG. Not able to login through putty. It says connectin refused and gets shut down. I tried to ssh from another unix nstance with ssh root@128.XXX.XXX.XXX I got “Connection Refused” error Please help me resolve as working through console is very pain ful
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I tried the Ubuntu set up steps ate: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-12-04 The error I am gettin gis: Connection closed by 128.XXXXXXX
Is root Login enabled?
$ sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin yes
$ sudo service ssh restart
It should be enabled on your first boot but maybe they changed it to deny. If it is that go ahead and enable it, make a new account (say john), add him to the sudo group & try to login with that account. If it works you can then disable root login.
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