On 20.01.2026 07:47, Washington Odhiambo wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM Martin Schröder <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Am Mo., 19. Jan. 2026 um 17:08 Uhr schrieb Washington Odhiambo
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Thank you for the explanation. Very easy to understand.
> I did exactly what you advised. It still did not allow me SSH access.
> Now, I added pf=NO /etc/rc.conf.local and rebooted.
> I believe this disabled PF completely.
> This too did not solve the problem.
> I remember running OpenBSD7.4 under VMWare Workstation and life
wasn't this difficult.
> See as I even have FreeBSD 15-RELEASE as a Proxmox VM and
accessible, I am completely stumped with this issue around OpenBSD.
>
> TIt's affecting my sanity.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how else I can resolve this?
Start by reading the PF users guide.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html <http://www.openbsd.org/
faq/pf/index.html>
And trim down your pf.conf - start with a minimal config.
The point is, I am not even interested in PF in the first place. I just
need SSH access to work.
The question is why it's not, even with PF disabled, yet sshd is running.
See https://imgur.com/a/1OnKWNQ <https://imgur.com/a/1OnKWNQ>
With pf disabled: What user are you trying to connect and are you using
a ssh key or password? Have you created an additional user when you
installed OpenBSD?
When you installed OpenBSD, at one point the question is:
-> Allow root ssh logging (yes, no, prohibit-password) [no]
If you left it at 'no' you won't be able to login as root user. If you
selected 'prohibit-password', you won't be able to login with a
password, only with a key.
Check /etc/ssh/sshd_config for "PermitRootLogin", or use the additional
user you created.
I am able to access all the VMs/LXCs via SSH. It's only OpenBSD that's
inaccessible.
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