<div dir="auto"><div>And it certainly doesn't seem to check/regen now, so yes, this is very plausible š<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 20:45 Colin Shorts, <<a href="mailto:colin.shorts@gmail.com">colin.shorts@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 20:33 Dick Middleton, <<a href="mailto:dick@fouter.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dick@fouter.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2020-06-24 19:42, Matthew Rankine wrote:<br>
> My understanding is that as part of the Archlinux/arm installation process, you've flashed<br>
> some Arch-specific firmware to the device (as per steps 13-14 of<br>
> <a href="https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/seagate-goflex-net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/seagate-goflex-net</a>). So it's not going to boot<br>
> without the USB disk containingĀ Arch OS, nor will it revert Seagate OS. But it sounds like<br>
> Arch successfully boots with the USB disk, so that's good.<br>
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> - listing the firewall rules - the device responding to ping but refusing port 22 suggests<br>
> maybe a firewall issue?<br>
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I think it's more likely to be the sshd host key that been deleted.Ā Another possibility<br>
is the sshd net interface binding.Ā It normally defaults to local only.Ā If the config has<br>
been overwritten for example.<br>
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Dick<br>
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