ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 2222: Connection refused

https://askubuntu.com/questions/673597/ssh-connect-to-host-127-0-0-1-port-2222-connection-refused

Hello I've created a user in Ubuntu and I want to connect to it using ssh using this command

ssh user@127.0.0.1 -p 2222

and I got this error

ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 2222: Connection refused

I tried

ssh -vvv user@127.0.0.1 -p 2222

and got

OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config 
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for * 
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 
debug1: Connecting to 127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1] port 2222. 
debug1: connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 2222: Connection refused 
sssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 2222: Connection refused

any help ?

Note : I am using virtualbox

Note, that 127.0.0.1 aka localhost is your local machine. Usually at this point you use the IP address or hostname of the remote host.

• First install the ssh server and client on your target host and your local host

  sudo apt-get install ssh
  

  A configuration isn't necessary.

• Per default SSH is listening on port 22, therefore use

  ssh user@127.0.0.1 -p 22
  

  or

  ssh user@127.0.0.1
  

• Or reconfigure the port for the ssh server (target host)

  sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  

  and change

  Port 22
  

  to

  Port 2222
  

  reload the configuration

  sudo service ssh force-reload
  

  and connect via

  ssh user@127.0.0.1 -p 2222