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SSH hangs upon login on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

About a month ago trying to SSH into servers (various ones, from various physical locations) started taking around 40 seconds to resolve. I tried tracing the problem, but without much success. I know ...
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ssh to localhost fails on mac os x server

This used to work fine, now I suddenly cannot ssh into my mac os x mountain lion server. Not even to localhost. It seems to authenticate, but it never launches the shell, so it just freezes. Here's ...
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Passwordless SSH not working with Mountain Lion

We are using Backuppc in our little office, with a mix of Windows 7 PC's and some users using their Macbooks. Backuppc is sitting on a server running Ubuntu 12.04.2. Passwordless ssh is working fine ...
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How do I ssh-login into my Mac as root?

For some reason I can't login as root into my Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I've already edited /private/etc/sshd_config file by removing the comment from PermitRootLogin yes and restarted Mac. Still it ...
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Why am I not able to SSH into my laptop?

I upgraded to Mountain Lion and something weitd is happening with accessing my computer via SSH. I am able to SSH into other boxes from my computer but I am not yet able to SSH into my laptop from ...
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Cannot connect to my mac via SSH

I want to open a connection to my mac (10.8) via SSH. An SSH-server is installed by default on OSX. Remote login is enabled, so the service is running and I can connect to to localhost via ssh. The ...
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Password-less login into localhost

I am trying to setup password-less login into my localhost because it's required for a tutorial. I went through the normal steps of generating an rsa key and appending the public key to ...
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Command Line SSH restart Mac OSX Mountain Lion

How can I restart the SSH service via the command line on Mac OSX Mountain Lion please? Using ps aux | grep 'ssh', I was able to deduce that the process is most likely /usr/sbin/sshd. From here I ...
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Configure SSH client to use different ports in Mac OS X

I have a .ssh/config file configured to connect to different servers with SSH: ### # Identity files ### IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa_home IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa_github IdentityFile ~/.ssh/...
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SSH Connection to Dreamhost server refused

I know there are many questions asked on this issue, but I am still not certain on how to solve my issue. I am at a location where my guess is the SSH connection is blocked. Using the same Macbook (...
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