Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:24:48 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson <ken@allenmyland.com> To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd max users Message-ID: <43FB5AF0.5010007@allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <43FB5871.2000808@calarts.edu> References: <43FB5871.2000808@calarts.edu>
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Sean Murphy wrote: > It seems I cannot connect to my server through sshd when there are 10 > processes running of sshd. My ssh client immediately terminates. If I > kill one of the ssh processes I am able to login through ssh. Is there > a max user setting? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ There's a MaxStartups parameter in /etc/ssh/sshd_config that limits the number of unauthenticated connections. It defaults to 10. Try increasing it and see if it fixes the problem. I don't think it's a good idea to indiscriminately increase this parameter, but it may help you diagnose what's going on. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.
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