SSH on a Mac Errors with “Write Failed: Broken Pipe”
Recently I had an issue when moving to a new Mac on OSX when I was trying to SSH to a Linux server. It would make the initial connection and then prompt me for a password. Once I entered the password, however, it would just hang (ctrl+c wouldn't even escape out) until eventually it would break to the command line with the message "Write Failed: Broken Pipe". After digging through various posts online, most of which were referring to timing out due to inactivity, I finally found a winner. I edited the /etc/sshd_config file and set the ClientAliveInterval value to 300. Then, I rebooted my Mac. The next time I tried to SSH to the same server, everything connected as expected. I hope this helps someone else in the future who is running up against the same issue I had.
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