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Everytime I try to log in (SSH) to my Ubuntu 14.04 server (DigitalOcean) it opens Letsencrypts certbot and asks me to choose a domain to install SSL on (already have it activated).
But after that, it automatically closes the connection, without me being able to do anything else.

I've tried:

  • FTP | result: Error: Received unexpected end-of-file from SFTP server
  • Root login | result: Same thing happens as with my own account
  • Adding commands to SSH, ssh -t user@domain echo hello | result: letsencrypt: error: File not found: echo hello

I have a Magento webshop installed on it and that's it. A little while back, there was no problem at all and I didn't change anything so I have no idea how this suddenly happened...

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  • do you have physical access to the server?
    – Skaperen
    Jan 8, 2017 at 4:37
  • No, it's on DigitalOcean
    – CherryNerd
    Jan 8, 2017 at 13:20
  • It is possible to get access to the server console on DO.
    – EEAA
    Jan 8, 2017 at 13:31
  • I've tried that, but does the exact same thing
    – CherryNerd
    Jan 8, 2017 at 13:34

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Reset to default
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I would first try to ssh in and disable profile and rc initialisation

ssh example.com -t "bash --noprofile"

or 

ssh example.com -t "bash --noprofile --norc"

If that didn't work I might try a different shell sh or csh ...

Failing that try logging in via the out of band console or rescue mode etc if available.

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  • I've tried the first 2 examples and it responds the following: ssh user@domain -t "bash --noprofile --norc" user@domains's password: WARNING: unable to check for updates. Requesting root privileges to run certbot... /home/user/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/letsencrypt -c bash --noprofile --norc
    – CherryNerd
    Jan 8, 2017 at 13:24

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