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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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