[EdLUG] Problem with ssh

[Colin Shorts]

And it certainly doesn't seem to check/regen now, so yes, this is very
plausible 😁

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 20:45 Colin Shorts, <colin.shorts at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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