Re: can't ssh to remote FreeBSD machine

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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:36:33 -0800
Subhash Gopinath <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to FreeBSD and recently installed FreeBSD 5.3. I'm unable to
> access the machine (ssh/telnet) over a network .... I can only ping.
> However sshd is running fine as I can ssh on the local machine...
> 
> I suspect some firewall rules restricting access to the machine .. But
> I'm not familiar with the firewall in FreeBSD. It would be gr8 if
> someone can throw some light to the problem.

Do a ssh -vvv user@machine and see the output. Note that user root can't
connect by ssh by default for security reasons. Without more info it's
hard to say what's the problem.

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