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Can't connect via SSH

Posted December 18, 2013 24.7k views
I trying connect to my droplet, but putty say "Network error: Connection refused". I can connect to droplet only using Console Access. SFTP not working too.
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  • aboubacrybalde July 26, 2017
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    i had the same problem but if you are runing UFW you have just to stop it or allow ssh access.
    you just have to login in your droplet and use ssh access to desable the firewale or to allow _ssh acess.

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kamaln7 December 18, 2013
Try running these commands and then start ssh (service ssh start): 
rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
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kamaln7 December 18, 2013
Did you edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config?
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kamaln7 December 18, 2013
Is OpenSSH running? 
sudo ps wwaux | grep ssh
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iiinkvizitor December 18, 2013
I think no: http://i.imgur.com/MHhAwfw.png
I trying: http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/4200/vlyj.png
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iiinkvizitor December 18, 2013
Same problem >_
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iiinkvizitor December 18, 2013
No. Today I had rebuild my droplet (Ubuntu 12.04 x32)- installed LAMP, created user, edited apache config. Few hours ago I opened and connected to droplet using putty and tried connect to droplet via SFTP (FileZilla). FilleZillla say "Network error: Connection refused" and I closed and open putty and he also say "Network error: Connection refused".
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kamaln7 December 18, 2013
Hmm. I believe openssh logs to syslog, check if there are any errors: 
sudo tail -30 /var/log/syslog

sudo tail -30 /var/log/auth.log
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iiinkvizitor December 18, 2013
syslog: http://pastebin.com/yiGWPyQm
auth: http://pastebin.com/DLqHFQwF
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pablo December 18, 2013
So you have not edited anything in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? What do you have listed in the AllowUsers directive? Is the username listed, that you're attempting to log in with?
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iiinkvizitor December 18, 2013
I did not open this directory never. I connect only as root
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kamaln7 December 18, 2013
Is there a firewall running? What's the output of 
sudo iptables -L -n -v
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cprice September 25, 2014

Add server ip address to /etc/hosts

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deco July 10, 2015

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
AllowUsers user_a user_b user_c
systemctl reload sshd
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deco July 10, 2015
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