I resolved it. I have to type (as root) su - test
and the prompt changes. Stephan Stephan Beck: > > > to...@tuxteam.de: >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Sorry, Tomas, it's not Gene, it's me who has a special question > concerning ssh. > If you create a new user account ("test"), doing as root > adduser --disabled-password test > > How can you access this new account to generate an ssh key pair there? > I cannot login to the account selecting "test" as user in the login > screen on system startup, it's deactivated. > I cannot try accessing it by ssh because I need to generate a key pair > first. Could one generate a key pair for "test" from another account? > > If I try > ssh test@localhost > ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused > > or, temporary enabling password authentication for a moment in > sshd_config, it prompts for a password (that has never been created > because of the --disabled-password option, see above). > > Or, what am I missing? > > Thanks in advance. > > Stephan > > I also read the doc you linked to in your other message of this thread, > but I cannot find my use case. > >