ssh: connect to host 10.0.2.15 port 22: Connection refused

Question

I have been trying the following command on the virtual machine in Ubuntu:

ssh [email protected]

But I keep in getting this response :

ssh: connect to host 10.0.2.15 port 22: Connection refused

I have checked my ssh status with this command :

service sshd status

And I got this result back:

Solution

Use ssh with port option:

ssh [email protected] -p 2222

Edit

This issue happens when you change your ssh server port to a non standard port like 2222 in ssh config file. (/etc/ssh/sshd_config --> Port 2222)

Comments

[pa4080]

Please edit your question and show us the content of etc/ssh/sshd_config.

[ebatinstitute]

I have one question ,why do you put -p 2222?

[Ghasem Pahlavan]

because your ssh server have listened on port 2222 but you connect to port 22.

[Ghasem Pahlavan]

you can change your ssh server listening port in this file: /etc/sshd/sshd_config ---> Port 22 and after that restart your ssh service. systemctl restart ssh