You need the password to log onto the other computer just like you were sitting in front of it. If you don't have any accounts on the remote computer you're out of luck, as it should be.

I have two computers here, and I can ssh back and forth through a patch cable. The firewall on the remote machine (ipconfig stuff) has to allow it (ping the ip), I don't remember having to fiddle with /etc/hosts*, but that may be necessary too. I simply ssh to the other with the ip number (probably the account name too, it's been awhile, in my case "pepsi), and when it asks for a password (the password for the pepsi account on the other machine) I give it. If it wasn't done this way, everybody could hack into everybody else's box like it's done on other OS'es.

If I understand what you're asking, then SSH has nothing to do with the question you're asking for.

It's kind of obvious if you think about it.

If it didn't cover how to make the accounts, that implies it likely isn't an SSH feature. Then you can logically deduce that maybe, it would be some other account system that takes care of it. And which account system would make the most sense for ssh to be tied into?

No, like I said, most of the sites were geared towards just installing ssh and would just say the commands to install, how to edit the config file, restart ssh. A few just ended there and some would recommend putty and just mention making accounts and public key authentication. Seemed like they were only geared toward installing it and not anything else, so therefore you can't deduce anything from it thanks to how the internet is (I mean look at tutorials on youtube, some are just show you where to download things and how to install them in the first video and save the other details for later videos).

I did and that is when I started finding things about log in and make a call to ssh-keygen -t dsa that was what I kept finding when I did a google search for "Ubuntu ssh login denied" or something along those parameters. The sites I found said to log in and started going through that, but never explained why the log in was denied. I didn't think I had to use the system login, I thought I would have to make a login that I would have to approve on each ssh config (mainly due to finding the AllowUsers <username> on one site) so I just logically figured the secure part of the ssh was that it made a read only connection between the computers, but couldn't figure out how to make the accounts register because my config file didn't have an AllowUsers option.

I've been fighting that myself right now. I have both the desktop and laptop set to port 5698 and I can connect with ssh and putty, but I can't get any ftp clients to connect to it and scp doesn't seem to work for getting my files off my desktop to my laptop :/. Googling revealed Filezilla and gFTP but both of them say can't resolve host even though I could connect to my desktop with the other methods. Google is offering up tons of solutions, none of which appear to work.

gFTP has an option to use SSH2, but it was still saying it couldn't resolve host even though I was able to use putty to log into my desktop. I'll keep looking into it though. As for sftp:// it says there is no program installed for that protocol when I type it in.

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Got it working. Apparently, my router is just a p.o.s. and picky as to when it works. My desktop worked fine, but laptop fought it a little.

Yeah, I said scp didn't work a few posts in. Turned out that I had to instal vsftpd onto my computers to get the FTP to work. Copied all my files and working between the two computers now.

Apparently not. I was able to ssh to both computers and look at the drives, but when I did scp it said it couldn't find the host on both. After installing vsftpd I was able to use Filezilla to transfer the files, but scp still keeps saying no host found. At least I got filezilla working so I can work between the two. Just copied some projects over to my laptop because I'm going to do a few competitions (well I may just do Moosader's competition that ends Oct 29).

We are talking about Specter here I think he just mis-typed the command. scp doesn't use the same command format that ssh does.