Jerry and everyone else. Thanks. It wasn't running. I was using linuxconf to start and stop, and to set the service to run. It wasn't working correctly. Now it is. I apologize. I'm now happily sshing. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Sternesky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 5:08 AM To: Ran Hooper; Expert Mandrake Subject: Re: [expert] OpenSSH Frustrations Do you have the server side installed and running? Open a console as root and type service sshd status. If you get something other than: sshd (pid ###) is running ... You probably need to start the service. So then type: service sshd start You can add it as one of the service to start when boot up. Also if you are already logged in as ran and you want to connect as ran you don't need the -l you can just do ssh localhost. The -l is usefull if you are logged in as user1 and you want to connect to another machine as user2. Then you would do ssh -l user2 localhost for example. The first connection to a machine you will get a message about generating a key and adding to your know hosts, type yes as the reply. Then in you home directory you will have a hidden directory .ssh with a known hosts file in it. Hope this helps. Jerry On Sunday 29 July 2001 04:15 am, Ran Hooper wrote: > Can anyone give me the readers digest version on getting this to work on > Mandrake 8? I've read the man pages. I've tried going through online > tutorials. I've hacked my hosts.allow to pieces. I'm about to blow it up. I > have run ssh-keygen several times, as my username and as root. I even > unloaded xinet.d to see if that would work. > > I was getting an error message in my /etc/auth.log about my hosts.deny > config. I added: > sshd: ALL > to hosts.allow and now I'm getting no logs anywhere (that I can find). > > When I type: > > ssh -l ran localhost > > I get: > Secure connection to localhost refused. > > Again I'm not seeing anything in any log I can find so now where should I > go. > > Everything I've seen seems to think it's a few simple commands. Can anyone > pretend they are setting it up from scratch and give me the rundown? > > Regards, > > Ran Hooper > > Regards, > > Ran Hooper
