On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:40, Mitchell Brown wrote: > Hi, > I can already remotely administer my Linux box via VNC - I'm wondering how > I can do the same thing, without a graphical interface. Basically, a remote > terminal. > I think this is called SSH but I am not sure. > > Can someone give me (in English) steps on how to set this up?
On the Linux box you want to control, make sure OpenSSH is installed and running. TAKE THE TIME TO DO THIS RIGHT - lock it down to allow only the access you want. Make sure your user accounts have strong passwords. On the box you are going to be connecting FROM, make sure you have OpenSSH installed (though the service doesn't neccesarily need to be running there). If you are connecting from a Windows box, use the program called PuTTy. The interface is pretty straight forward to use. >From a Linux box, go to a command prompt, and type in the following: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] The "myusername" part would be a valid username on the remote box. The "remotecomputername" part would be the name or IP address of the remote box. (make sure the name can be resolved to an IP). You will then be prompted with some warnings. Say that yes you want to accept the connection info for the remote box (don't remember the exact wording of this) - this will only happen once, the next time it will use the stored info. Then you'll be prompted for the password of the remote user. If all goes well, you will now have a command prompt FOR THE REMOTE BOX. If you were to enter the 'halt' command, the remote server would shut down (if the user had permission to enter that command). There is absolutly no difference between this command prompt and sitting at the remote computer logged in to a local shell. (well, yeah there are some differences, but you get the idea...) When you logout of that command prompt, you will return to your local prompt. Once you have this set up, you can begin to explore the more advanced things you can do with ssh - like setting up trusted keys to allow authorized computers to connect without a password prompt, or running a KDE application on the remote computer showing it's output to your local computer - without having to get a full screen dump (like VNC). Or use SCP or SFTP to transfer files. HTH. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
