Are you SURE it is getting started by the rc.local? Do a ps -ef | grep sshd
and make sure it loads when you reboot. A ps -ef will also tell you which
user the process was run as.
Charles
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric and Catherine Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 6:36 PM
Subject: sshd as root
>I guess I'm confused about running sshd as root.
>
>I have sshd loading via rc.local on a remote machine, and it will not
>allow me access. If somebody at the site runs sshd directly from the
>server terminal, everything works as it should. The documentation does
>warn that sshd should be run as root, but I thought that rc.local did
>run such a process as root. Why does one method work, and the other not
>work?
>
>AND
>
>If rc.local will not do the trick, what will work so that I don't locked
>out whenever the machine is restarted? (I administer it--I hate getting
>locked out.) :)
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Eric
>
