ssh

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Wed Aug 21 17:20:18 EDT 2002


On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, dan moylan wrote:
> 
> > network i now have two ibm laptops running rh7.3.  both were
> > 
> > the setups are identical (reciprocal addresses, of course) to
> > the best of my knowledge, but though i can ssh/scp from polaris
> > to sirius, the reverse is not true:
> 
>    Check that you have the openssh server installed and running on both 
> systems.  You should see something like:
> 
> $ rpm -q openssh-server
> openssh-server-3.3p1-1
> $ /sbin/service sshd status
> sshd (pid 1052) is running...
> 
>    The default install of any RH7.3 package set other than "Server" won't 
> give you the server portion of ssh.  If you have sshd and it IS running, 
> check iptables/ipchains to make sure it's not blocking connections.  
> Previous releases of RH (but not 7.3 IIRC) would enable some firewall 
> rules even if you specified "No Firewall" during install.
> 

Compare  /etc/ssh/sshd_config on both machines.  And don't try it as root, 
since login as root is also disabled by default.


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