[EdLUG] Problem with ssh

[Dick Middleton]

On 2020-06-24 19:42, Matthew Rankine wrote:
> My understanding is that as part of the Archlinux/arm installation process, you've flashed
> some Arch-specific firmware to the device (as per steps 13-14 of
> https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/seagate-goflex-net). So it's not going to boot
> without the USB disk containing Arch OS, nor will it revert Seagate OS. But it sounds like
> Arch successfully boots with the USB disk, so that's good.

> - listing the firewall rules - the device responding to ping but refusing port 22 suggests
> maybe a firewall issue?

I think it's more likely to be the sshd host key that been deleted.  Another possibility
is the sshd net interface binding.  It normally defaults to local only.  If the config has
been overwritten for example.

Dick