Sudo Password after provisioning new server not working

Are you sure you are using the correct password sent to you? The one you want is the first one. Sometimes, if you copy and paste, it creates an issue. Make sure it is plain text you are copying. Also, you need to use an SSH key if you want access via SSH. You can paste your key in Forge.

thank you @ejdelmonico I was sure, that I used the correct password. After trying around for a while I found other issues on my server which seemed strange. Then I discovered, that there went something wrong whit the ubuntu install. Forge acted normally, but ubuntu was totally messed up. After a clean install and reinstalling forge, everything worked as expected.

Anyway, your suggestions make totally sense, so i'll mark your answer as correct.

I ran into this because I was entering my sudo password instead of the passphrase for my actual SSH key that I generated. :) - might serve as a reminder to someone else that runs into this.

I had this happen, normally I don't have a problem copy the sudo password from the forge email and pasting, but with a new server I setup, this was the issue.

However I typed the password manually and it worked.