SSHD won't start

viragomann

@gwabber
Check the system log. Maybe you can find hints for the reason.

gwabber

@viragomann thanks for your reply!

I allready did, but there's nothing that could hint to a problem...

Gertjan

@gwabber

sshd doesn't need 'much' : at least one interface so it can bind to it :

It will use these interface to accept 'all' (IPv4 and IPv6), post 22 by default.

You have enabled it :

?

gwabber

@gertjan thanks for your reply!

Ben je ook Nederlands / Are you Dutch too? ;)

I have SSH enabled, but the daemon won't start. In the logs I see that it starts, but no error code or something.

I don't know if I have set an interface. Where can I set that?

this is the only line I see in the system logs:

When I try to activate it via shell, it says it's allready enabled...

Gertjan

@gwabber said in SSHD won't start:

I don't know if I have set an interface. Where can I set that?

No need to select or set an interface.
The sshd daemon will bind to all interfaces.

Btw : what does

ps ax | grep 'sshd'

tell you if sshd running.

16241  -  Ss      0:00.04 sshd: root@pts/0 (sshd)
49108  -  Ss      0:00.00 sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups

sockstat

or

sockstat | grep 'sshd'

shows also some info.
If 192.168.1.1 is the LAN interface of pfSense, you could also test with :

ssh 192.168.1.1

@gwabber said in SSHD won't start:

Ben je ook Nederlands / Are you Dutch too? ;)

Yep.

gwabber

@gertjan

Not much to work with I guess... :

I can't access it from the standard interface, the connection times out.

gwabber

Could it have something to do with the fact that it is an backup on new hardware?

johnpoz

@gwabber did you try just disable and then enable it again.

gwabber

@johnpoz yeah i did haha

gwabber

i've been diggin in the forums. I rembered that a couple of days ago, I rebooted my pfsense and I read back the Telegram backups it gave me.

One of them said it was regenerating SSH keys.

That way I came across this topic with someone with the same problem as I had:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/79400/error-after-upgrade-to-2-2-release-sshd-secure-shell-daemon-doesn-t-start/7

now I was able to regenerate according to the commands that were given in that topic, but now i get this error:

gwabber

@gwabber allright...

apparently it works now. I ignored the error and tried to SSH in. I was able to do that, but I don't know what the error means...

johnpoz

so you just started the sshd directly from the cmd line without any parameters or config..

let it start the normal way.. I would kill of any sshd processes and disable and enable it via the gui, or the console.

gwabber

@johnpoz Well, after I regenerated the SSH key's the way the OP from the other topic did it. Also in de GUI everything is running again and I can SSH into the firewall.

Thanks for your help guys!

Gertjan

@gwabber

If that file didn't exist, I would hit the big red button called "system not to be trusted" as these files :

are created upon system (pfSense) install.

The real question is now : **what else has not been created and or not put in place ** ?

And yes, the sshd deamon will silently fail if the basic config isn't present.
I was about to propose : make the sshd system start way more verbose by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config by adding a line with "Verbose" (something like that).

Anyway : Succes verder.