Connection Refused on ssh

Rafael Skodlar raffi at linwin.com
Thu Oct 7 16:24:30 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:23:59AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Redhat 8.0 system which I must access with ssh. ?However, 
> whenever I give a ssh command it says "Connection refused". How can I get 
> around this? Below is my sshd_config file, if anyone cares to look at it. 
> Thanks!

Your config file has a line ListenAddress commented out. Uncomment it 
and put IP number for interface you want to listen on. 0.0.0.0 means 
listen on all interfaces and IPs.

That should make a difference.

> 
> #	$OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.56 2002/06/20 23:37:12 markus Exp $
> 
> # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
> # sshd_config(5) for more information.
> 
> # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
> 
> # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
> # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
> # possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options change a
> # default value.
> 
> Port 22
> Protocol 2
> #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
> #ListenAddress ::
> 
> # HostKey for protocol version 1
> #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
> # HostKeys for protocol version 2
> HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
> HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
> 
> # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
> KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
> ServerKeyBits 768
> 
> # Logging
> #obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging
> SyslogFacility AUTH
> #SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV
> #LogLevel INFO
> 
> # Authentication:
> 
> LoginGraceTime 600
> PermitRootLogin yes
> StrictModes yes
> 
> RSAAuthentication yes
> PubkeyAuthentication yes
> #AuthorizedKeysFile	.ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> # rhosts authentication should not be used
> RhostsAuthentication no
> # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
> IgnoreRhosts yes
> # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
> RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> # similar for protocol version 2
> #HostbasedAuthentication no
> # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
> # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
> IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
> 
> # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
> PasswordAuthentication no
> PermitEmptyPasswords no
> 
> # Change to no to disable s/key passwords
> #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
> 
> # Kerberos options
> #KerberosAuthentication no
> #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
> #KerberosTicketCleanup yes
> 
> #AFSTokenPassing no
> 
> # Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver
> #KerberosTgtPassing no
> 
> # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM keyboard-interactive authentication 
> # Warning: enabling this may bypass the setting of 'PasswordAuthentication'
> #PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt yes
> 
> X11Forwarding no
> #X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> #X11UseLocalhost yes
> PrintMotd no
> PrintLastLog yes
> KeepAlive yes
> #UseLogin no
> UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
> #Compression yes
> 
> #MaxStartups 10
> # no default banner path
> #Banner /some/path
> #VerifyReverseMapping no
> 
> 
> # override default of no subsystems
> Subsystem	sftp	/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
> 
> 
> -- 
> John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer
> Computers to Help People, Inc.
> http://www.chpi.org
> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703

-- 
Rafael




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