[SOLVED] proxmox user unable to login via ssh

[frippe12573]

Hi everyone,

I'm a new proxmox user.
I have successfully installed proxmox VE 7.2-3 and I'm deploying 4 different VMs.
During the proxmox installation I configured the root user only.

In the period before the use of proxmox I had Ubuntu server with kvm with only an user belonging the sudoers group to administrate the server.
I wonder if it could be viable a similar config in proxmox.

Thus, I created from the GUI another user and I put it in the 'administrator' group.
Then I tried to login with the new user via ssh, but I got several issues.
I have seen that a home directory was not created, so that I created it by command line and I gave the right (I presume) permissions (755).
So the logging with the new user works but i don't see the normal prompt of the bash:

Last login: Fri Jul 15 12:19:24 2022 from 146.48.94.194
username@servername:~$

but I only see

$

Do you know why?Any hint to solve this issue?
thanks in advance

 

[Matthias.]

That's probably because of your shell and/or its configuration.
Does it change when you open a different shell, e.g. bash? If yes, you just have to change your default shell with chsh.
There are plenty of resources on the internet on how to customize your prompt, e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bash/Prompt_customization

 

[bbgeek17]

adding on to what @Matthias. said, google "change user shell" for more tips on linux user management.

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[frippe12573]

Thank you very much @Matthias. and @bbgeek17 ,
I had sh shall for the user, now I changed it to bash and it works as I wanted!