SSH/SVN Password not working. [Sovled]

[chi-kitory]

hey i have an issue with ssh or svn. I installed it earlier today at work. Had it working fine all day then just when i was about to leave. I did ssh localhost it asked my for my password. and now the password doesnt work. I don't understand how this could happen. But how to i fix it?
I can log into su or sudo just fine with my password. But doesnt work when trying to test the ssh localhost.
Even if i do svn username@localhost and i type my password it doesnt work. Its really strange.
Thanks,
Chi kitory

[chi-kitory]

bump
i am running gnome btw

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

Instead of username@localhost, try username@`hostname`.local

[chi-kitory]

That doesnt seem to help
But this is what happens when i do ssh localhost

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username@ubuntu:/$ ssh localhost
username@localhost's password: 
Permission denied, please try again.
username@localhost's password: 
Permission denied, please try again.
username@localhost's password: 
Permission denied (publickey,password).

[oobetimer]

Try to use a correct IP adress instead of username@localhost

[chi-kitory]

username@ubuntu:/$ ssh my_ip_here

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username@my_ip_here's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
username@my_ip_here's password:
Permission denied, please try again.
username@my_ip_here's password:
Permission denied, please try again.

[chi-kitory]

is there a reset? its really messing with my work conditions.

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

is there a reset?

There's a hidden folder /home/<your-login-name-here>/.ssh. Open Nautilus, navigate to your home folder, and press Ctrl+H to reveal all hidden files. Locate the .ssh folder and rename it to something else (.ssh-backup for example) and try ssh'ing again. If that resets the keys you may delete the renamed .ssh-backup folder. You might have to do the same on other logins/computers that are affected. HTH.

[chi-kitory]

the issue with doing that is it only resets the authenticity of the host. So its not like it would reset the password for me.
I tried passwd changed my password, still no dice.
I made a fake user on my side, which the password works fine with ssh.
So its really an issue with my account.

[chi-kitory]

alright it seems with tail -f auth.log
i was able to find this out:

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Failed none for invalid user username port.xxx:x

meaning i dont have the rights?

[chi-kitory]

Fixed it.
So what i had to do was look at the auth.log logs.
While it was active with -f i was able to see that it wasn't letting me in due to not have my name on the allowusers list in
/etc/ssh opening up the file called sshd_config editing it and adding

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AllowUsers username

Then i had to reset the server for it to work
So i did:

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sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

any questions for anyone else that has this issue ask