JupyterHub doesn't allow me to login as another user

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I can’t seem to be able to login as another user than myself, on jupyterhub.

I have installed jupyterhub using the standard instructions, and then proceeded to:

jupyterhub --generate-config

I then edited the jupyterhub_config.py with the following entry:

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I then restarted jupyterhub by using the command

jupyterhub -f jupyterhub_config.py

However even after erasing all cookies in my browser, I can only login as tbrowne, using my Linux username and password. tbrowne is the current user that is logged into Linux, and under which JupyterHub is running. If by contrast I try to login as jean, even though that user exists, jupyterhub gives me an invalid username or password error.

This is despite the fact that user jean definitely works as I have ssh’d into the box with that ID no problem. Isn’t the default PAM authenticator supposed to allow login using any user? Do I have to add jean to some group or something under Linux for this to work?

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Try using sudo to run jupyterhub.

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I encounter similar issue. The solution provided work.

sudo jupyterhub

However, when I set up jupyterhub run as dasmon on boot. In this case, it is not using ‘sudo jupyterhub’ anymore.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable jupyterhub
sudo systemctl start jupyterhub

It didn’t work. Any solution in this case