Not able to login into SSH

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I was going through this Misc — BeagleBoard Documentation
to setup root login but now I’m not able to login into my debain@192.168.7,2 using temppwd

can someone please help me with this? thank you.

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What do you see?, is it even connecting and just failing to let you in?

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How far through that process in the documentation did you get? Did you set a password? Can you log in using that password instead of tmppwd?
Can you ping 192.168.7.2?

If you’ve managed to somehow mess up your password and you dont have any other users set up, then you wont be able to log in via ssh. There are various ways round this:

  • if this is still a default install with few changes, you could reinstall the OS and start again. This might be your easiest option.
  • If you’re booting from an SD card, this can be mounted on another linux system and the logins fixed - however this is not simple and dangerously error prone. Definitely not recommended unless you’re quite experienced with linux. If you’re booting from the emmc, then you can do this by temporarily booting off an SD card.
  • if you have a serial adapter, use this to log in and reset the password.
  • If the machine is set up to auto-log in (I dont know if this is set by default), then attach a keyboard and monitor and reset the passwords directly.

I just noticed in your post, you’re trying to log in to: debain@192.168.7,2
I asume this is a typo in your message and that you’re actually using a dot rather than a comma before the 2.

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Speaking of typos it should also be debian

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You are a legend!