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I've freshly setup a rather standard current Arch Linux and encounter a problem that I can not get a grip on:

  1. DHCP service is enabled and network is online (ping succeeds with hostname and IP address)
  2. OpenSSH service is enabled
  3. OpenSSH config allows public key and password

But I can not connect via SSH unless I also log in locally. Once I logged in locally once, I can logout in and out via SSH without problems, even when the local session is exited.

Journal says that SSH server starts up well before the local login.

Edit: Error message from Putty is "Connection refused"

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  • Please expand on what you mean by "can not connect". Does it refuse the TCP connection? Does it accept the connection but deny your key and/or password? Adding to your question the output of ssh -vvv user@host and the contents of the SSH daemon's log when attempting a connection would be helpful. Commented Nov 8, 2018 at 22:16
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    Is your home directory encrypted? If it is, the system can't see your home dir until you login, thereby un-encrypting the home dir. Commented Dec 2, 2018 at 20:00
  • @MERM are you aware of any workaround for this problem? Commented Feb 15, 2019 at 7:23
  • @MERM thanks for mentioning this possibility, it applied to my case and was solved with instructions at: help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys Commented Feb 15, 2019 at 7:39

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You need to install and enable haveged to generate sufficient entropy for the cryptographic exchange of keys. Possibly related to this bug report.

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  • You may want to add how to check the entropy on the system... cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail and list an OK value (>1000) for comparison... Commented Nov 8, 2018 at 22:55
  • installing havegd and enabling the service solved the issue! Commented Nov 9, 2018 at 19:53
  • @Arne you should check if it is still needed with 4.19 when you update to that series. Commented Nov 9, 2018 at 20:15

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