Re: Granting access to OpenBSD

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM Martin Schröder <martin@oneiros.de> wrote:

Am Mo., 19. Jan. 2026 um 17:08 Uhr schrieb Washington Odhiambo
<odhiambo@gmail.com>:
> Thank you for the explanation. Very easy to understand.
> I did exactly what you advised. It still did not allow me SSH access.
> Now, I added pf=NO /etc/rc.conf.local and rebooted.
> I believe this disabled PF completely.
> This too did not solve the problem.
> I remember running OpenBSD7.4 under VMWare Workstation and life wasn't this difficult.
> See as I even have FreeBSD 15-RELEASE as a Proxmox VM and accessible, I am completely stumped with this issue around OpenBSD.
>
> TIt's affecting my sanity.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how else I can resolve this?

Start by reading the PF users guide.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html

And trim down your pf.conf - start with a minimal config.

The point is, I am not even interested in PF in the first place. I just need SSH access to work.

The question is why it's not, even with PF disabled, yet sshd is running.
See https://imgur.com/a/1OnKWNQ 

I am able to access all the VMs/LXCs via SSH. It's only OpenBSD that's inaccessible.

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