sshd not working

Darrin Chandler dwchandler at stilyagin.com
Sun Jul 9 19:03:42 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Elijah Savage wrote:
> I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.1 I enabled ssh on startup. I  
> can see that it is running from the console but it is not accepting  
> ssh connections across the network. I can ping the machine and nmap  
> the machine and see ssh port 22 open, also /etc/rc.conf shows ssh  
> enabled what am I missing?

Since port 22 is open, try the -v switch on the client side and see
where and what isn't working. If it's a config problem between what the
server will accept and what the client is trying it should show up
there.

Also check syslog to see if something funky happened on the server side.

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