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Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone

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On 8/13/19 10:18 PM, Keith Steensma wrote:
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> On 8/13/2019 5:29 PM, Keith Steensma wrote:
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>> On 8/13/2019 1:16 PM, Michael Howard wrote:
>>> On 13/08/2019 18:40, 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.

A long time ago I settled on having to use puttygen.exe to generate the 
keys. You have to copy/paste from the puttygen window to create the 
authorized_keys file.

A nuisance but it works reliably.

Bruce

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Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-12 15:40 +0200
  Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-08-12 16:20 +0200
    Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-12 16:50 +0200
      Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-08-12 17:00 +0200
  Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-08-12 16:30 +0200
    Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-08-12 16:40 +0200
    Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-08-12 16:40 +0200
      Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-08-12 16:50 +0200
      Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-12 16:50 +0200
        Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-08-12 22:00 +0200
    Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-12 16:40 +0200
  Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-08-12 16:40 +0200
  Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Bruce Halco <bruce@halcomp.com> - 2019-08-12 16:50 +0200
  Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-08-12 21:10 +0200
  Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2019-08-12 23:10 +0200
    Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-08-13 15:30 +0200
      Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-08-13 17:40 +0200
        Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2019-08-13 18:50 +0200
          Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-13 19:50 +0200
            Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-08-13 20:10 +0200
            Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2019-08-13 20:20 +0200
              Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-14 00:30 +0200
                Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-14 04:20 +0200
                Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Bruce Halco <bruce@halcomp.com> - 2019-08-14 12:30 +0200
                Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2019-08-14 13:40 +0200
              Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-14 00:30 +0200
    Re: Secure Shell refuses to accept connections from anyone Keith Steensma <keith@airways-consulting.com> - 2019-08-13 15:30 +0200

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