can't ssh to remote FreeBSD machine

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:36:33 -0800
Subhash Gopinath <subhashg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to FreeBSD and recently installed FreeBSD 5.3. I'm unable to
> access the machine (ssh/telnet) over a network .... I can only ping.
> However sshd is running fine as I can ssh on the local machine...
> 
> I suspect some firewall rules restricting access to the machine .. But
> I'm not familiar with the firewall in FreeBSD. It would be gr8 if
> someone can throw some light to the problem.

Do a ssh -vvv user at machine and see the output. Note that user root can't
connect by ssh by default for security reasons. Without more info it's
hard to say what's the problem.

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