Is it the root login  ?

Ssh usually has root login disabled

Look for PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_config if that is the case
 On May 8, 2015 10:48 AM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all the helpful responses.
>
> Don't know why I didn't think of the copy-paste solution. Duh! ;)
>
> >> Now my concern: What I hear is: SSH likes me. FTP doesn't.
>
> Actually, ftp works fine, but it is ssh that is not accepting
> the same password on the same server. Strange.
>
> >> FTP should be disabled and SFTP should be used.
>
> Thanks for the advice. I've always used ftp to login to
> my webhost. but I'll start using sftp now.
>
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