From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 18:25:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC3F16A420 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:25:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42BE43D45 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:25:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([68.80.195.248]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060221182507m13002mbqke>; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:25:08 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DB2B843; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:25:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bserver.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04030-07; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:25:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.214.102] (kbuilt.transpack.com [192.168.214.102]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40186B842; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:25:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43FB5AF0.5010007@allenmyland.com> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:24:48 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Murphy References: <43FB5871.2000808@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <43FB5871.2000808@calarts.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at transpack.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd max users X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:25:09 -0000 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.