[ale] sshd not responding

[Jim Kinney]

Doublecheck that the sshd is running. I start mine from rc.local. Some
people startit from inetd.conf.

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Ben Phillips wrote:

> I can ftp to localhost.  I can telnet to localhost.  But when I start an
> sshd, I can't ssh to localhost because all I get is:
> 
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> 
> Here is the sshd_config from /etc/ssh (and I'm even specifying -f
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config to make sure it's finding the right file):
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # This is ssh server systemwide configuration file.
> 
> Port 22
> ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
> HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
> RandomSeed /etc/ssh/ssh_random_seed
> ServerKeyBits 768
> LoginGraceTime 600
> KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
> PermitRootLogin no
> IgnoreRhosts yes
> StrictModes yes
> QuietMode no
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> FascistLogging no
> PrintMotd yes
> KeepAlive yes
> SyslogFacility DAEMON
> RhostsAuthentication no
> RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> RSAAuthentication yes
> PasswordAuthentication yes
> PermitEmptyPasswords no
> UseLogin yes 
> AllowHosts localhost
> # DenyHosts lowsecurity.theirs.com *.evil.org evil.org
> # Umask 022
> # SilentDeny on
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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