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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:58:24 -0500
From:      Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: sshd refuses connection
Message-ID:  <20220222015824.08679774465c2c285fec5e6b@3dresearch.com>
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:34:07 -0500
Paul Procacci <pprocacci@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Janos,
> 
> The best advice is probably making plans to get a KVM on the machine
> ahead of time.
> Barring this, if you already installed the world libs/sshd binary ...
> keep your current ssh session active and restart the sshd daemon only
> to see if that solves your problem.
> Also ensure the config is proper and that all referenced paths resolve
> correctly and anything referenced has been rebuilt against the new
> libs as well.
> If that fails, adding -vvv flags to the sshd upon startup would
> provide not only you, but us further information as well.
> 
> Ultimately, I believe if you simply restart the daemon, the problem
> will resolve itself.
> 
> ~Paul

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, I did have a KVM ready, and after
rebooting sshd(8) is accepting connections again. Whew!

-- 
Janos Dohanics



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