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[41.147.198.23]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-454b161f351sm43117635e9.4.2025.07.04.20.17.57 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3826.600.51.1.1\)) Subject: Re: sshd trouble right out of the box :( From: Arnold Greyling In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2025 05:17:45 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Message-Id: <92E660E4-5429-453F-BF5C-79B5990F050C@menusis.com> References: To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3826.600.51.1.1) X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.39 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.999]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.96)[-0.964]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.92)[-0.924]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[menusis.com,none]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2a00:1450:4000::/36]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[menusis.com:s=google]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2a00:1450::/32, country:US]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2a00:1450:4864:20::329:from]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[menusis.com:+] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4bYwgK4MHBz43Xy X-Spamd-Bar: --- > On 05 Jul 2025, at 02:05, fatty.merchandise677@aceecat.org wrote: >=20 > On a fresh Vultr.com instance running FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE, sshd > periodically (ie. every few hours) logs the following message, and > then dies. So I have to restart the server to get in :eyeroll: >=20 > sshd[1015]: fatal: pack_hostkeys: serialize hostkey private: > string is too large >=20 > Ducking finds nothing relevant. Anyone, please? Try regenerating your hostkeys with=20 # ssh-keygen -A Also, if you haven=E2=80=99t yet, update to the latest patches released = this week. # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install Run #freebsd-update IDS It should tell you if any installed files are changed. Normally it lists = quite a few files in /etc which is OK If it lists /etc/ssh/sshd_config and you haven=E2=80=99t made changes = yourself have a look what=E2=80=99s going on. Regards Arnold