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Can't connect via SSH

Posted on December 18, 2013

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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Is there a firewall running? What’s the output of <pre>sudo iptables -L -n -v</pre>?

Add server ip address to /etc/hosts

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
AllowUsers user_a user_b user_c
systemctl reload sshd

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