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Date:      Thu, 6 May 2010 15:29:41 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ssh: port 22: connection refuused
Message-ID:  <20100506222941.GA43291@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BE33781.90108@tundraware.com>
References:  <20100506172149.GA42430@thought.org> <4BE2FD22.3060302@tundraware.com> <20100506213556.GB42975@thought.org> <4BE33781.90108@tundraware.com>

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On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:41:21PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 5/6/2010 4:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:32:18PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >> On 5/6/2010 12:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>>
> >>> can anybody help me with ne of my last problems: getting ssh Into
> >>> my new comuter?  i am able to ssh outside.  need to scp my config
> >>> files over.
> >>>
> >>> sshd is running on "zen"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> This generally involves two or three steps:
> >>
> >> 1) Make sure /etc/rc.conf has this in it:
> >>
> >>    sshd_enable="YES"
> > 
> > 	Yes; this was my first try.  no diff.
> >>
> >> 2) Make sure /etc/hosts.allow permits access
> >>    to your machine via ssh.  Something like this:
> >>
> >>      sshd: 192.168. a_host-name.com an.ip.add.ress  :ALLOW
> >>
> >>    Some people do this:
> >>
> >>      sshd: ALL :ALLOW
> >>
> >>    That's fine if the machine sits on a trusted LAN, but I don't
> >>    much like this for machines that are internet-facing ... it
> >>    just provides another vector for attack.  So, for such machines,
> >>    I explicitly name the address and names that are permitted ssh access.
> > 
> > 	ok. itried this; have not rebooted yet.  no difference right
> > 	now.
> > 
> >>
> >> 3) If you're running a firewall, make sure that the sshd ports
> >>    (22/tcp and 22/udp) are open for those machines/addresses
> >>    you want to connect into your FreeBSD box.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 	i'm runnning a pfSense computer; pretty sure that things are
> > 	sett correctly there.
> > 
> >>
> >> If you are still having trouble,  go to the client machine
> >> and invoke your session like this:
> >>
> >>   ssh -vvvvv your_freebsd_machine
> >>
> > 
> > 	the files in /etc/ssh were the first thing i thought of
> > 	editing.  didn't see many differences between rel 8.0 and my 
> > 	current 7.3.  still, here is the verbose output.
> > 
> > 
> > pl 14:20 <tao> [5036] ssh zen
> > ssh: connect to host zen port 22: Connection refused
> > pl 14:20 <tao> [5037] ssh -vvvv zen
> > OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
> > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> > debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> > debug1: Connecting to zen [10.47.0.190] port 22.
> > debug1: connect to address 10.47.0.190 port 22: Connection
> > refused
> > ssh: connect to host zen port 22: Connection refused
> > pl 14:22 <tao> [5038]                        
> > 
> > 	any idea what the ``needpriv 0'' means?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> What's in your /etc/hosts.allow file?
> 
       sshd: ALL ALL :ALLOW

		i think.  i'm at my main desktop right now.  there were
		two "ALL" strings in the pcbsd /etc/hosts.allow.  the
		line was commented out; i just x'd the #.  i'll reboot 
		and see if that reinitialized =something=. :_)


> 
> >> It will barf out a bunch of interesting information about why the connection
> >> isn't working that may help you figure out what's going on.
> >>
> >> Happy Trails,
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Tim Daneliuk     tundra@tundraware.com
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> >>
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> 
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