On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 05:41:13PM +0300, Washington Odhiambo wrote: > Putty/Bitvise SSH clients work with all VMs, and all hosts that I manage, > but NOT OpenBSD. > > Any ideas?
Run sshd on the OpenBSD machine in the foreground from the console to see comprehensive debugging info: # /etc/rc.d/sshd stop # /usr/sbin/sshd -ddd This will generate a lot of output, but will allow you to see how the ssh session is being negotiated, (and hopefully identify where it fails).

