ItHowTo.ro » ssh http://www.ithowto.ro Blog about IT realated stuff by WSS Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SSH Password Prompt Timeout http://www.ithowto.ro/2009/05/ssh-password-prompt-timeout/ http://www.ithowto.ro/2009/05/ssh-password-prompt-timeout/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 09:48:59 +0000 gkoo http://www.ithowto.ro/?p=97 When try-ing to ssh into a linux server from a machine that doesn’t have reverse dns setup you might fall intro the situation where your ssh connection times-out befor you get the password prompt.

In this case, on the server, in sshd_config add the following line to solve your issue:

UseDNS no

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