Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone
On 8/13/2019 7:40 PM, Keith Steensma wrote:
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> On 8/13/2019 11:35 AM, Michael Howard wrote:
>> On 13/08/2019 16:31, Joe wrote:
>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:28:04 +0200
>>> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Keith Steensma wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/12/2019 4:00 PM, elvis wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/8/19 11:23 pm, Keith Steensma wrote:
>>>>>>> The same thing happens if I fill in 'root' as the login even
>>>>>>> though a 'root' login is not permitted in the default
>>>>>>> 'sshd_config' configuration. Even when I change the
>>>>>>> configuration to allow for 'root' login, 'root' can never login.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try a local ssh login to see if it rules out network problems. As
>>>>>> in ssh localhost. or ssh -l <user> localhost. If it is your
>>>>>> network getting in the way it may
>>>>>> rule that out.
>>>>> Yes that works ( ssh -l <user> localhost ). So that means it has to
>>>>> do with the network connections.
>>>> Not necessarily. It can be the client, too (your PuTTY). You didn't
>>>> describe the error message in detail (perhaps it is too unspecific,
>>>> GUI clients tend to be like that), but perhaps PuTTY has some
>>>> "verbose" option you can activate. Then you may infer whether there's
>>>> a hole in the net or whether just client and server don't get along
>>>> with each other.
>>>>
>>> It is some years since I used PuTTY regularly, but I seem to recall
>>> that it didn't use OpenSSH-type keys and insisted on generating its own
>>> and providing a conversion to an OpenSSH key, which then had to be
>>> placed on the server. Is it possible this procedure may have gone amiss
>>
>> This has happened to me a couple of times. Regenerating and converting
>> solved the problem.
> It may be wrong, but I'm using putty where putty does not supply a
> username or a 'key'. I'm using it just as
> a terminal (does someone have an alternate suggestion). I agree, putty
> gets along with OpenSSH is a
> 'almost' fashion. If you convert your 'key' in the right way. I have
> been using mine a long time just because
> it takes a while to get it to work correctly.
>
I don't understand how you are connecting to your server if you don't
use username/pwd or identityfile and what do you mean by "terminal"?
In this thread, some putty alternative were suggested if that is what
you are asking.
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John Doe
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