Hi Holly,
I got it running. The problem was the firewall and the hosts.deny file.
I'm not sure how, cause I never edited that file before last night, but
the address I was attempting to log into ssh with was listed as a host to
be denied. When I changed that and then reconfigured the firewall for port
22 and ssh everything started to work just fine. It took a little digging,
but I got it sorted out.
thanks,
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Holly Henry-Pilkington wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > I've got all these packages installed and I'm not able to connect to my
> > machine using ssh. When I get to the login it asks me for the passwd and
> > then refuses the connection. Are there other files that need to be
> > configured or something that I'm missing?
>
> Oh gosh I had that exact problem and I can't recall what I did to fix
> it... It seems to me that it was a combination of two things: the config
> and setting up my user name to allow ssh by generating an ssh key in my
> home dir... To do this, run ssh-keygen as the user that you want to allow
> to connect. Once you've done that, copy the file under your home directory
> /home/user/.ssh/identity.pub to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys.
>
> Now, that last step is supposed to be for logging in without a password by
> using the key on both the machine you're logging in from and logging in
> to. I never did get that idea to work but it wasn't what I was looking for
> anyway. :) My guess is that it was something in one of the configuration
> files and I changed a few things there.
>
> I guess what I'm saying (kinda stream of consciousness here, I'm tired!
> <grin>) is that it would be most helpful to see your config file to
> compare it with mine then I could probably give you a pointer. It took me
> a LOT of trial and error, even after looking at every reference I could
> find out there!
>
> Holly
>
