Polishing setting up SSH

After setting up SSH with the webinterface of nextcloud pi I was unable to log in via ssh. There were multiple hurdles that pointed me in the wrong direction. With the gained knowledge I walked through the steps again. I hope some of these hurdles can be fixed.

I tested this with a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and the NextCloud_RaspberryPi_v1.52.0 image. I dd-ed the image to an sd-card and followed the activation steps. Answering no to the questions. Enabled ssh and connected via ssh to the raspberry pi. The following message was shown:

$ ssh ncpadmin@nextcloudpi.local
Please note that SSH may not work until a valid user has been set up.

See http://rptl.io/newuser for details.
Received disconnect from 192.168.88.232 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures
Disconnected from 192.168.88.232 port 22

The https://rptl.io/newuser link led me believe I had to first set it up via physical access.

After connecting a monitor I saw a screen which looks almost identical to this image: https://www.raspberrypi.com/app/uploads/2022/03/newuser-1.png but with the question: "Which user would you like to rename?".

note, at first I had another problem, I wouldn't see any output as soon as the output mode switched to display the image. My HDMI cable turned out to be subtly broken.

My ideal solution is: when setting up an ssh account, disable of the 'which user user would you like to rename` process. This also removes the newuser warning when connecting via ssh.

The option to add an ssh-key when creating the ssh user would also have solved the issue for me.

For others that are having this problem. I was able to login by forcing ssh to prefer passwords: ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=password ncpadmin@nextcloudpi.local

Regards,

Roland

nextcloud / nextcloudpi

Polishing setting up SSH #1776