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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Subject: Re: SSH Daemon not running
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:03, kaging@access4less.net wrote:
> After a standard install of 4.7 the ssh daemon isn't running
> even though it shows enabled in rc.conf, could it be
> something else I'm missing. It was my understading that ssh
> got installed by default. I did go into /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> and made sure I uncommented the port 22, etc. but still no
> help. I tried reinstalling just to make sure I didn't
> accidentally mess something up but the same thing keeps
> happening. Can someone please point me in the right
> direction?
>

Dependent on version and/or sshd_config you may need an empty
directory belonging to root:
  /var/empty
and a pseudo user:
  sshd:*:22:22::0:0:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin

Some how I was missing this user on one machine and found=20
sshd would exit rather promptly until I installed this user.

Of course you might have an entirely different problem ;)

Malcolm Kay=20