Ubuntu 12.04 LTS SSH Authentication Problem

[zeroburn]

Okay, so in my network, we have a webserver.

Today, I wanted to get on and refresh the content on a few pages.

Well, all is fine and good untill i try to "Connect to Server" from my Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop distro's file manager.

The popup appears

Server Details
     Server: 192.168.1.110
     Port: 22
     Type: SSH
etc etc

Either way, i type my credentials, but then i get an error, either "Please verify your user details" or "Access Denied"

These are the correct credentials, because i am able to use them to log in to the actual machine after restarts, etc.

But through ssh, my credentials seem to be false

is there a command i need to use to change the SSH password for the user, or is there a glitch on not retrieving the password from the shadow file?

Speedy help would be appreciated, as this is a problem with a server that is public and live.

Thanks.

[zeroburn]

Also, more information

The server also does not let any other users on through ssh, but will let them on the physical machine.

Effected accounts such as
root
administrator
webserver1

etc

[Rob Pomeroy]

Sounds like your ssh installation is borked.  Try "apt-get remove --purge openssh-server" then reinstall.  It might be that ssh is trying to use some authentication method other than Unix passwd files (LDAP, AD, etc.).

[zeroburn]

Actually, after some research, it was a configuration file (i can not remember which one at the moment) that i had set up wrong a while ago, to restrict all accounts by mistake. After quite a bit of the "cd" and "vi" commands, i found the problem.