Troubleshooting

The recent spat of SSH scans have been identified as a program called bruteSSHd which tries to brute force SSH passwords. Brute forcing passwords is simply a program which will try a combination of password retries until the right password is found. This is one of the security issues SSH has in that to the best of my knowledge there is no way to limit the number of failed logins under SSH.

Some other Troubleshooting tips are as follows (most can be found here):
If you get the error msg: "Secure Connection Refused" This is usually a configuration issue. Somewhere within the installation of SSH a wrong parameter was given which currently has SSH looking for an RSH parameter. The easiest thing to do is reinstall SSH.

SSH asks for passwords despite an .rhosts file. This error can be linked to a number of issues regarding the configuration files, whether they are readable or set up properly.

X11 Forwarding problems - check the command line you are using, the proper command line for X11 connections is ssh -f otherhost xclient. Also, check the configuration files on both sides to verify everything is configured properly.

To return to the main directory for the SSH Tutorials.