#Putty terminate ssh session windows 8.1

I don't experience these problems with older ubuntu's using the same SSH client and PC. Now, last night (or more accurately this morning), when I decided it was time to go to bed, I killed my ssh session (happened both with powershell and PuTTY) and the server shut down. I've turned the Windows firewall off and still does it. As the whole thing is headless, I SSH in from my personal rig to the server box both to set it up and to actually start the server and do things from console.

#Putty terminate ssh session windows 8.1

I'm running the SSH client on a Windows 8.1 connecting to an Ubuntu VM on the very same box using Bridge Mode. After 10 seconds it timeouts and you lose the connection.Īs for firewall. Keep in mind that closing the SSH session will also terminate any running processes in that session unless they are running in the background or under.

I've tried different SSH clients (Putty and also SSH Client from another ubuntu box) Putty window: Click the X button in the top right-hand corner of the Putty window or right-click on the Putty title bar and choose Close from the context menu. I've tried multiple VMs (Basic 14.04 setup with no options selected such as database, web, etc. I've tried with or with my settings in place.

If you keep typing the session stays alive, but with no input or output after 10sec the session stops and a minute later in the auth.log the session is cleared out. If the process is number 1 in the list of.

You can then see what jobs are paused with the jobs command and then kill the process with the kill command. This should then return you to your shell command prompt. Code: Apr 30 16:50:22 test1 sshd: Accepted password for testuser from 10.10.10.10 port 43906 ssh2Īpr 30 16:50:22 test1 sshd: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user testuser by (uid=0)Īpr 30 16:51:35 test1 sshd: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user testuserNow the SSH session seems to stop working after only 10sec of no typing. You can send a SIGSTOP to the process (most shells use Ctrl-Z for this), which will tell the present process pause its current state.