sftp connection refused

[Hanry Zhou]

When I run sftp to hostA, got connection refused, please see the following, can anybody please let me know what is the reason caused the problem?


root]# sftp -v bmsbroad@hostA
Connecting to hostA...
OpenSSH_3.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted.
debug1: restore_uid
debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 1
debug1: Connecting to hostA [hostA IP] port 22.
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0)
debug1: restore_uid
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0)
ssh: connect to address hostA port 22: Connection refused
debug1: restore_uid
Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

[Hemanth Gurunath Basrur]

Hello Hanry,

Refer to the following links for info.

http://swflug.org/pipermail/help/2003-January/000072.html

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x75e0fef4d250d611abdb0090277a778c%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1066618796717+28353475

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xc671c1c4ceddd61190050090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1066618823956+28353475

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Hemanth

[Hanry Zhou]

please let me know your thoughts on what reasons possibly caused the problem? firewall, sshd_config? Thanks,

[Steven E. Protter]

If the user id you are using has had a password expiration or lock via bad logins, the connection reset by peer message will happen.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

From the looks of your output, port 22 is refusing the connection. What is blocking port 22 - the firewall, port 22 services not running on the client, etc.

[Massimo Bianchi]

server is unix or windows ?


just today i solved the exact same problem on a window server.


the authorized_keyd must be readable by all, and this can be gained only with the cacls command on window.

If it is unix, check the permission of the same file, maybe the same problem.

Also, rise the level of logging to debug3, you should catch the exact error.

Massimo