Unable to connect via ssh

[grallewellyn]

I am just seeing my ssh as undefined (separate issue), but @rtapella gets
% ssh root@54.191.120.17 -p 32413
ssh: connect to host 54.191.120.17 port 32413: Connection refused

[rtapella]

might be fixed by #850
?

[grallewellyn]

I tested #772 and it is still not working for me and was not fixed by #850

@rtapella You were the one getting the connection refused behavior (I was not able to replicate this)
Do you still get this error after uploading your ssh key?

[rtapella]

same behavior.
tried making a fresh 2048 bit key. added to authorized_keys file and uploaded it via the Profile.

[rtapella]

(ssh key upload worked fine)

[rtapella]

I am still seeing the same behavior. Tried 2048 and 4096 bit keys

[rtapella]

I added it to the Profile and to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and logged out/in to refresh everything. I also stopped and started the workspace. Still "Connection refused"

[jerry-clayton]

Hi, I am a new user and ran into this problem. I was finally able to get SSH to work for me using these steps:

1. Followed MAAP instructions to upload SSH key. I used a 2048 bit key.
2. run apt-get update
3. run apt -get install systemctl
4. run apt-get install openssh-server
5. run systemctl enable sshd
6. followed the instructions in this AskUbuntu answer (The answer says to add these lines to a file in /etc, but that file did not exist for me, so I just ran the commands in terminal):
7. mkdir /var/run/sshd
8. chmod 0755 /var/run/sshd
9. run systemctl start sshd

After this I was able to SSH into the server. A few linked answers to the one above imply there is some sort of issue with the version of openssh-server, but it is unclear to me the exact root of the issue is. Either way, this solved it for me. I hope it helps!

[wildintellect]

@jerry-clayton thanks for the info.

@grallewellyn seems like maybe we're not configuring the ssh service correctly in the images. Note: we don't want to leave this to the users, since we'd want to control the sshd configuration and have it be persistent. Question is what changed in recent images this used to work in older images @sujen1412 @bsatoriu ?