I'm struggling to setup the OpenSSH on my Windows system.
I tried to follow both a system installation (like this) and a manual installation from the binaries. I copied the OpenSSH files in C:\Program Files and I installed from there.
The OpenSSH server and agent seems configured properly, but when I try to ssh to the localhost I get always the following error:
Connection reset by ::1 port 22Hereafter some debug commands:
Get-Service ssh-agent Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Running ssh-agent OpenSSH Authentication AgentGet-Service sshd Status Name DisplayName ------ ---- ----------- Running sshd OpenSSH SSH Servernetstat -nao | find /i '":22"' TCP 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 5680 TCP [::]:22 [::]:0 LISTENING 5680Get-NetFirewallRule -Name *OpenSSH-Server* |select Name, DisplayName, Description, Enabled Name DisplayName Description Enabled ---- ----------- ----------- ------- OpenSSH-Server-In-TCP OpenSSH Server (sshd) Truewhoami pcname\m.ceradinissh pcname\m.ceradini@localhost Connection reset by ::1 port 22The sshd_config is the default. As suggested in other tutorial I tried also to comment the Match Group Administrators in the sshd_config, but the problem persists.
Do you have any idea of what is going on? And how I could try to fix this error of connection?
Thank you very much.
UPDATE:
I post here the answers to some of the questions and replies. Ssh to my own user is still not working.
For summarizing I did the following things:
- Uninstalled OpenSSH
- Deleted all the .ssh and Open-SSH related folders
- Installed again OpenSSH Client and Server (using the windows GUI - from settings) - and reboot
- Checked that all the SSH related commands and services works (Get-Command ssh,Get-Command sshd, Get-Command ssh-agent, Get-Service sshd, Get-Service ssh-agent)
- Create a new key for the user
- Added the public key to the authorized_keys in .ssh folder
- Commented the 'Match Group administrators' (as stated here) in sshd_config
- Enabled 'PubkeyAuthentication' in sshd_config
- Checked that sshd service are running.
debug
Get-Service sshdStatus Name DisplayName------ ---- -----------Running sshd OpenSSH SSH ServerAs sshd in default configuration will not serve the loopback device,localhost as remote usually will not work, if you didn't start atunnel at that port previously:
Please execute the following command:
ssh pcname
whoamipcname\m.ceradinissh -v pcname\m.ceradiniOpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6p1, LibreSSL 3.4.3debug1: Authenticator provider $SSH_SK_PROVIDER did not resolve; disablingssh: Could not resolve hostname pcname\\m.ceradini: No such host is known.If the host is not found use the local IP address but not the127.0.0.1 respectively not ::1
ssh -v 192.168.83.185debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: nonedebug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: nonedebug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLYdebug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY receiveddebug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:v7C8pJ1ci+e/ZJKhgyIvZfENRyQHd0sUJSXv8PXIEDMdebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directorydebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen __PROGRAMDATA__\\ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directorydebug1: load_hostkeys: fopen __PROGRAMDATA__\\ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directorydebug1: Host '192.168.83.185' is known and matches the ED25519 host key.debug1: Found key in C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/known_hosts:1debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocksdebug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sentdebug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYSdebug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS receiveddebug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocksdebug1: Will attempt key: sssapisa\\m.ceradini@TNE-Matteo ED25519 SHA256:ugTj7Iu5c0ZbiXgF6yMPO8Hru3rLp5ynP+Aku15WKX0 agentdebug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:WgcHzwF1tPBwnvdmy9KriQjn+qLuDbOhR80Bmpw10O0debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_dsadebug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_ecdsadebug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_ecdsa_skdebug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_ed25519debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_ed25519_skdebug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_xmssdebug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO receiveddebug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com,webauthn-sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com>debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT receiveddebug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactivedebug1: Next authentication method: publickeydebug1: Offering public key: sssapisa\\m.ceradini@TNE-Matteo ED25519 SHA256:ugTj7Iu5c0ZbiXgF6yMPO8Hru3rLp5ynP+Aku15WKX0 agentdebug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactivedebug1: Offering public key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:WgcHzwF1tPBwnvdmy9KriQjn+qLuDbOhR80Bmpw10O0debug1: Server accepts key: C:\\Users\\m.ceradini/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:WgcHzwF1tPBwnvdmy9KriQjn+qLuDbOhR80Bmpw10O0debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).Authenticated to 192.168.83.185 ([192.168.83.185]:22).debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.comdebug1: Entering interactive session.debug1: pledge: filesystem fulldebug1: ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_INPUT is supported. Reading the VTSequence from consoledebug1: ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING is supported. Console supports the ansi parsingclient_loop: send disconnect: Connection resetUsually you should not need to use the username, as ssh will defaultto your current user. So excluding it eliminates a source of error. —I suspect you must not use pcname\m.ceradini but only m.ceradini asusername. — But I'm not a primary windows user and currently can'tverify this.
Regarding the username I tried all the possible combinations, but the outcome is always the same.