Pi 3, Putty not working when booting to USB

TiffTaylor · September 6, 2018 at 9:25 PM

Hi

I have downloaded the image to my SD Card & USB stick, I have edited the cmdline.txt to boot to USB

Code

boot=/dev/mmcblk0p1 disk=/dev/sda1 ssh quiet

All works ok except I cant connect via Putty. If I dont edit the cmdline.txt and just run from SD card putty is ok

The putty error is "Connection refused"

What am I missing, is there I guide to run Kodi from USB

Many thanks Regards

**Klojum** · September 6, 2018 at 11:48 PM Official Post

Not sure if the SSH boot parameter still works, but there is a on/off switch in the LibreELEC Settings Add-on for the SSH server.

TiffTaylor · September 7, 2018 at 8:09 PM

Hi

Thanks for the reply, the only SSH setting on the Pi is SSH password On / Off

I believe I read somewhere that it is hard coded on 1st boot where you choose SSH & SMB during startup

Regards Tiff

**chewitt** · September 17, 2018 at 11:29 PM Official Post

The ssh boot param still works. If set you cannot disable/enable the SSH service in LE settings. Note that if you want to use USB for /storage the USB needs to be correctly partitioned with EXT4 or another supported *Linux* filesystem. If it's FAT or NTFS the filesystem doesn't support unix permissions and contents of /storage default to 777 which means the SSH private key in /storage/.ssh isn't secured (it's world readable) and the SSH daemon will preventatively refuse to start.