On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:55:13 +0000, Roger Bell_West wrote:

> 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.

The following list from /var/log/auth.log shows me starting sshd with
'sudo service start sshd' and attempting to connect with 'ssh
pi@192.168.0.104'

*************************************************************************
Dec 14 13:14:33 beta sshd[5635]: Accepted password for jack from
192.168.0.104 port 56346 ssh2
Dec 14 13:14:33 beta sshd[5635]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened
for user jack by (uid=0)
Dec 14 13:14:33 beta systemd-logind[768]: New session 8 of user jack.
Dec 14 13:17:01 beta CRON[5727]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened
for user root by (uid=0)
Dec 14 13:17:01 beta CRON[5727]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed
for user root
************************************************************************

The same thing happens (or fails to happen) in the other direction.

jack

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