Re: sshd refuses connection

On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:34:07 -0500
Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Janos,
> 
> The best advice is probably making plans to get a KVM on the machine
> ahead of time.
> Barring this, if you already installed the world libs/sshd binary ...
> keep your current ssh session active and restart the sshd daemon only
> to see if that solves your problem.
> Also ensure the config is proper and that all referenced paths resolve
> correctly and anything referenced has been rebuilt against the new
> libs as well.
> If that fails, adding -vvv flags to the sshd upon startup would
> provide not only you, but us further information as well.
> 
> Ultimately, I believe if you simply restart the daemon, the problem
> will resolve itself.
> 
> ~Paul

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, I did have a KVM ready, and after
rebooting sshd(8) is accepting connections again. Whew!

-- 
Janos Dohanics