On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM Brian Conway <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026, at 8:04 AM, Washington Odhiambo wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM All <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So it seems its your client that is giving you issues. Probably Key > Exchange algorithms is the culprit? > >> Or some other misconfig. > > > > The two SSH clients work with almost everything in the work, EXCEPT > > OpenBSD? :-( > > I haven't configured anything on the OpenBSD VM. I started with getting > > SSH access to work, hence my issues with PF. > > But after disabling PF, I expected SSH access to work. And it doesn't. > > And that ends my sojourn to the OpenBSD land --for now. > > > > If your client is incompatible or out of date, you will likely see the > same behavior the next time any of the other operating systems you are > using put out a new release that includes the latest OpenSSH. I suspect > they probably aren't using 10.2 right now. > > If you search the release notes for "incompatible", you might find a clue > as to what is broken in your version of PuTTY: > > https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html > > Or try updating PuTTY first, if you haven't already. > Putty version = 0.83 OpenSSH version on my FreeBSD 15-REL VM = OpenSSH_10.0p2, OpenSSL 3.5.4 30 Sep 2025 OpenSSH version on the OpenBSD-7.8 VM = OpenSSH_10.2, LibreSSL 4.2.0 In most of my Linux VM = OpenSSH_10.2 Putty/Bitvise SSH clients work with all VMs, and all hosts that I manage, but NOT OpenBSD. Any ideas? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
