/system ssh hangs

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/system ssh doesn’t seem to work.

  1. /system ssh localhost user=knowngooduser

prompts me for a password, but rejects knowngooduser’s password (which works with the windows UI).

  1. /system ssh [ip address of unix box] user=remoteusername

just hangs. After about 30 seconds, it returns with “Welcome back!”, which it also does in response to ctrl-C. I can see TCP packets flowing to port 22 on the other end up to the hang. I don’t see anything from sshd on the other end about those attempts.

The ssh server in the routerbox works just fine, including port forwarding, so I can sort of make do without for now, but it would be nice to have a functional ssh client.

2

Mine works. V4.16. This is to a PCLinuxOS box from a RB433AH:

[admin@test] /system> ssh xx.xx.58.118 user=tim
tim@xx.xx.58.118's password:
[tim@localhost ~]$

Insure your computer firewall is open to port 22 and you have the ssh daemon running.

3

I’m using 5.4. I’m really, really, really, really sure sshd on the target machines are working and reachable.

I can run tcpdump on the target machines and watch a whole lot of traffic going back and forth up to the point where it hangs, then times out.

The machines in question are macs running the latest Snow Leopard and a FreeBSD machine running 8.2-RELEASE. And, as I mentioned, I can’t even correctly connect to localhost with knowngooduser.

4

I found the steps to import a private key pair, and using the keypair works. But password authentication does not. I also, seemingly, cannot ssh to a dns name that is IPv6 only. I can, however, ssh to an IPv6 literal.