On 2017-12-14, Jack Fearnley wrote:
>Right now I am having trouble with SSH communication either way between
>my main desktop (beta in the hosts listing below) and raspberrypi.

Where are you getting the address for the pi from? Are you sure that
what's on that address is in fact the pi?

>jack@beta:~$ ssh pi@192.168.0.104
>pi@192.168.0.104's password:
>
>I enter the password and the terminal freezes.
>
>I get exactly the same result in the other direction.
>
>Any suggestions?

Look at the sshd logs on the target host. /var/log/auth.log is the
main one, though there may be some useful content in daemon.log too.

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