Re: Cannot ssh to the VM on Fedora

Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.hurd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

Le 18/08/2025 à 14:50, Osama Albahrani a écrit :
> Waited for the VM to boot, logged in, and then from the host:
> 
>      $ ssh -p 2222 root@localhost
> 
> And I am getting a password prompt even though root does not have a 
> password.
> 
> Is there a step I’m missing?

You have to set up a password (on the console) for which ever user you 
want to ssh-login with (I prefer to use demo instead of root). For 
password-less ssh-ing, I also installed my SSH key in the VM (using e.g. 
ssh-copy-id).

Cheers,
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