At 4/19/2002 09:59 AM -0500, you wrote: >I am new to the Linux World and trying to understand the language spoken here.
You're going to read *lots* of documentation and man pages, but you'll be fine. The effort is certainly worth it. >I have just installed RH 7.1 running Apache and I am having problems >using telnet and puTTY. >Does a telnet daemon need to be running to used ssh? >If I try to telnet to my IP address I get "can not open connection to >...address.... >If I use putty ip address a window flashes and goes await >or I get "connection closed by remote host". Telnet is a program to supply a remote terminal to someone; so is ssh. However, telnet sends everything (including your username and password) in the clear, where anyone sniffing the network can see *everything* you type whereas ssh (which stands for Secure SHell) encrypts the entire transaction so that everything you type is nearly impossible to intercept or decrypt. Hence, use telnet only when you really truly have to and when you're in an internal trusted network. But given that ssh has some other neat features, everyone will strongly recommend to you that you try to use ssh everywhere. They are independent; telnet does not need to run (or even be installed) for ssh to work and vice versa. That being said, the most common package for SSH capability (included with RedHat) is openssh. Your Linux box must have the openssh and openssh-server packages installed, plus (optionally) the openssh-client package. Once the packages are installed, as root issue the commands: # service sshd start # chkconfig --level 2345 sshd on The first will start sshd (the d is for daemon, a process which runs inside the machine and provides a service), and the second will make sure that sshd is started when you change runlevels or reboot. You also want to make sure that you do not have a firewall blocking that traffic. Do you have a firewall configured at all? Let us know whether you get this working, or provide more detail and ask very specific questions. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
