[xubuntu-users] sshd not accepting connections

[Ralf ranfyy]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:21 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Then if it is running:
>>  $ ps ax | grep ssh
>> and
>>  $ sudo service sshd status
>>
> Ps shows several outgoing ssh's and one sshd -D.

Uh, I wonder why it has -D there.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man8/sshd.8.html

I'd stop the ssh server:
  $ sudo service ssh stop

start it in debug mode:
  $ sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -d

then open a second terminal and try to connect to it:
  $ ssh localhost

You should get some debug output in the terminal where you started sshd.