I've been looking online for about two months now with no luck for my problem. I am on Ubuntu. My Pi's static IP is 169.254.0.2. The Ubuntu Ethernet connection I have for it has the same static IP and gateway for IPv4. I don't have the IPv6 settings configured at all for that connection. Strangely, whenever I set the IPv4 netmask to 255.255.255.0 it turns back up as 24 when I look at it again, but cursory googling suggests this is a harmless quirk of Ubuntu. Anyway. I can ping the pi, and when I ssh to [email protected] it successfully connects and requests the username, but when I give it the password it says permission denied. I can ssh over puTTY in Windows 7, but I've tried this on Ubuntu using the command line and Linux puTTY and no dice. $ ifconfig eno1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 5c:26:0a:5f:46:22 inet addr:169.254.0.2 Bcast:169.254.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::f48c:b007:86a1:20ac/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:477 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6347 (6.3 KB) TX bytes:69932 (69.9 KB) Interrupt:20 Memory:e2d00000-e2d20000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:36094 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:36094 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 RX bytes:3093674 (3.0 MB) TX bytes:3093674 (3.0 MB Is there something I am doing wrong with my ethernet connection or what? Why is it giving me this problem? I can post the ssh `-vvvv` output if necessary but it's long, so please just let me know. Update: After changing the IP address to 192.168.1.23, ssh does not work from either partition, Windows or Linux.