[RESOLVED] Can login to LUCI but CAN'T login to ssh

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I seem to have the opposite problem to that posted multiple times here.

I have got my Linksys WRT1900ACS with OpenWrt 24.10.1 into a state where I CAN login to LUCI and reset the admin password but I can't use that password to login with ssh. The password is being rejected ("Permission denied, please try again.").

I have understood that the LUCI and shh passwords were one and the same but my situation seems to indicate otherwise.

I achieved this mess after trying to recover from the well-documented loss-of-connectivity problem following my attempt to change the IPv4 address of the default LAN interface. Since I'd done little to change the device config I thought a factory reset would be the easiest path back to connectivity. It hasn't worked out that way. It DID fix my connectivity problem but has some how left my locked out of ssh.

The problem seems to be evident with either boot profile/overlay in use.

How do I fix this?

My early attempts to boot to failsafe mode have been unsuccessful. I need to find out to trigger failsafe on my Linksys device...

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are you using username: root?

Did you possibly disable password login? System > Administration > SSH Access -- enable instance should be checked, as should password authentication and allow root logins with password. Then, interface should be unspecified.

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Thank you. Silly me. Working too early or too late is not a good idea.