SSH connection Refused
 

I know a little about Linux and have the following question: When I try to use putty to SSH into my Ubuntu box it comes up with a connection refused.

I am directly connected to the internet and don't know if their is a firewall on Ubuntu.

Please Help!

What version of Ubuntu?

Are you sure sshd is running? Run this command. 'sudo ps aux | grep sshd' ( without the quotes ).

Here is what you should see, if it is running.

Have you tried to check for the iptables rules?


copy us your results please.

Here is what I am getting on those commands
 

Ubuntu 7.10

sudo ps aux | grep sshd:

iptables:

I sometimes have the same issues with SSH. Maybe it is SSHd that is kicking you out itself.
Get Webmin. With it you can configure SSH pretty easily.

One should resist the urge to promote or install Webmin just because one wants a GUI to configure things with. Webmin apparently has the habit of changing more things than one sees at first sight and therefore could make things worse unless you take precautions. If ssh'ing somewhere does not work the first thing would be to show (preferably in BB code tags) the output of using ssh in verbose mode (can take up to triple -v's) and the commandline you use (scrub and replace any personal information like public IP addresses).