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I can't connect to Droplett through SSH

Posted on January 27, 2018

I can’t connect to ssh no matter how many times I toggle the ufw settings and restart my computer please help! I’ve been ssh’ing into my server for the past couple of days without any problems until today. Why did this happen? Here is the ssh verbose:

OpenSSH_7.6p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *


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Just purge the ssh client or do this as said below.

sudo vi +48 /etc/ssh/ssh_config

put a # at the start of this line.

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