[EdLUG] Problem with ssh

[Colin Shorts]

>From memory, openssh regenerates a host key if it's not present, or at
least it did when using the old init scripts. I know this because I
submitted a patch for Solaris about a decade ago when working on one of the
support teams in linlithgow. It does sound plausible though.

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 20:33 Dick Middleton, <dick at fouter.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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