Re: Granting access to OpenBSD

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 05:41:13PM +0300, Washington Odhiambo wrote:
> Putty/Bitvise SSH clients work with all VMs, and all hosts that I manage,
> but NOT OpenBSD.
>
> Any ideas?

Run sshd on the OpenBSD machine in the foreground from the console to see
comprehensive debugging info:

# /etc/rc.d/sshd stop
# /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd

This will generate a lot of output, but will allow you to see how the ssh
session is being negotiated, (and hopefully identify where it fails).

Here is the debug info: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/CXP2qNWWTX/

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