Accidentally uninstalled something sshd needs

[deepthaw]

After installing roughly one trillion packages in a failed attempt to compile Deluge from ports, I went back and judiciously removed all of them. One of them was clearly the wrong thing to remove because now when I try to connect to my system over ssh, it rejects all of my keys. I'm assuming this means I removed a library it needs to validate those keys (or maybe sshd itself and it's just still running and doesn't know it's dead yet.)

Any tips on what to reinstall? Or is there a pkg reinstall sshd or similar that will just forcibly reinstall everything I should have?

 

[SirDice]

That's unlikely because sshd(8) is part of the base OS. So unless you used pkgbase there simply are no packages to add or remove that would break sshd(8).

 

[SirDice]

it rejects all of my keys.

Typically the reason they get rejected is bad permissions on the ~/.ssh and/or home directory, look in /var/log/auth.log for reasons why the login got rejected.

 

[deepthaw]

It was even dumber than I thought. I removed zsh as part of my pkg purge. As soon as I got to the machine locally and tried to login it told me the error. Easy enough fix from single-user mode. Thanks anyways!