[Daniel]

I have just finished a first time Slickstack installation.
After rebooting the server, I can no longer connect via SSH.
The connection is dropped instantly.

I am using IP as ssh host
I am using the sudo user.
I have not restricted SSH connection via IP.

The only thing is that I have not yet pointed my domain to the server, as it is hosted elsewhere, so the SSL creation failed during slickstack installation, but i am not sure if this is relevant

Any ideas?

[Brandon]

who is the cloud provider?

are you sure installation completed?

did you reboot yet?

[Sharon]

What SSH client and operating system are you using? Do you have the exact error message

[Bobby]

I have reinstalled slickstack and everything is ok

[Mary]

I have reinstalled slickstack and everything is ok

okay great. most likely installation didn’t complete properly. or in some cases, you might have used the wrong SSH password.

in rare cases users sometimes name their sudo user the same as SFTP user and that will lock you out, make sure those 2 users have different names

[Bruce]

>> reinstalling Slickstack

pretty much fixes everything, in my experience

[Ruth]

pretty much fixes everything, in my experience

Does reinstalling SlickStack reset SSH configs?
Like if I manually set config to passwordless and only SSH key.

[Pamela]

@Ruth

Yes reinstalling SlickStack will overwriting absolutely all module config files, including Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, etc.

SlickStack is not designed to be messed with beyond ss-config

[Brittany]

It looks like ss-config file can be used to disable password login and enable SSH key. So reinstalling SlickStack would not affect what was described above. This is from ss-config-sample.txt.

## using SSH keys is only recommended for advanced users who know what they are doing ##
## be sure to copy your public key hash into: /var/www/auth/authorized_keys ##
## SSH_KEYS = [false|true] if enabled then SSH password logins will be disabled ##
SSH_KEYS="@SSH_KEYS"

[Dylan]

Brittany is correct. But depends if @Ruth customized their SSH config via ss-config or did it manually, because if maully those changed would be overwritten.

Best to start new threads for any new questions thx

[James]

how exactly do you login to a SlickStack server?

[Joshua]

also don’t login with root user, apparently SlickStack disabled it during installation

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