System not allowing ssh to proceed

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When attempting to use ssh, trying to access my Router's login from the LAN side, I am getting the following inexplicable errors:

Attempting connection ...
/etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 70: Bad configuration option: denyusers
/etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 71: Bad configuration option: denygroups
/etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 77: Bad configuration option: allowusers
/etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 78: Bad configuration option: allowgroups
/etc/ssh/ssh_config: terminating, 6 bad configuration options

My /etc/ssh/ssh_config file contains the following entries:

###     Group 1 - Restrictive
DenyUsers root 
DenyGroups root

###     Group 2 - Permissive
AllowUsers myuser
AllowGroups myuser

According to various references, the above entries are valid, yet ssh is flagging those as "Bad configuration".

Does anybody know why?

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Hi, @ericmarceau :slight_smile:

I believe that the problem is those keywords that you are trying to use ("DenyUsers", "DenyGroups", "AllowUsers" and "AllowGroups") belong in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file (which is the SSH Server configuration file) but you are trying to put them in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config (which is the SSH Client configuration file) instead.

The following "man" pages show which keywords are valid in each one of those files:

man ssh_config

man sshd_config

I hope this helps :slight_smile:

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