On Thu 31 Mar 2016 at 13:28:57 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:43:49PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I want all the computers on my private network to be able to shh into each > > other. In Jessie, what do I have to do where in what config file? > > Presumably some port is shut?? > > 0. Each computer should be able to "see" port 22 (ssh) of each other's > (I'm assuming you go with the default port for ssh, this can be > changed, but I wouldn't do that without some reason) > > 1. Each computer should have an SSH server running (on Debian that would > be package openssh-server: in Debian it has priority "optional": I'd > double-check that it's installed) > > 3. To connect, you need also an openssh-client (since this has priority > "standard" n Debian, chances are that it's there already) > You can check all these three by trying from each host "ssh > user@the-other-host" > and studying the responses. > > Since your question was pretty general, I preferred to go with a terse, > bird's perspective answer. Let's tackle the details when they come up.
There is also dropbear as a lightweight SSH2 server and client. Using it in preference to openssh is useful for resource constrained machines.