can't ssh to remote FreeBSD machine

[Subhash Gopinath]

Hi,

When I executed ipfw on the FreeBSD machine ... I get this result - 

>ipfw show
ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_GET) : Protocol not available

Is there any other firewall that I need to look at ?

tx,
Subhash

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:50:23 +0100, Hexren <me at hexren.net> wrote:
> SG> Hi,
> 
> SG> Results are the same when I try with a non-super-user account (say guest)..
> SG> Btw, I have set PermitRootLogin=yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> 
> SG> tx,
> SG> Subhash
> 
> SG> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:25:10 -0600, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> >> Subhash Gopinath wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >Here's the debug o/p of ssh ('have replaced the IP address with a dummy one...)
> >> >
> >> >-bash-2.05b$ ssh -vv root at A.B.C.D
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Read on....
> >>
> >> >OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004
> >> >debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> >> >debug1: Applying options for *
> >> >debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> >> >debug1: Connecting to A.B.C.D [A.B.C.D] port 22.
> >> >
> >> >And it stops at this point...But the machine is Up (since I can ping
> >> >it) and sshd is running on port 22
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Subhash
> >> >
> >> >On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:03:05 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu
> >> ><itetcu at people.tecnik93.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>Do a ssh -vvv user at machine and see the output. Note that user root can't
> >> >>connect by ssh by default for security reasons.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >> As Ion-Mihail said in the sentence about this one, you can't ssh
> >> root at anybox
> >> (by default, it is *not* allowed).
> >>
> >> Kevin Kinsey
> >>
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> You have made sure that there is no firewall blocking ssh from the
> outside ?
> 
> Hexren
> 
>