Subject: Re: Next question: ssh
From: Brett Humphreys (bhumphre@cs.ohiou.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 11 2001 - 17:22:46 MST
sshd is only run if you are trying to telnet to that machine.
a lot of times with ssh, if you are ssh'ing as root, then it will not let
you do anything. So once you get things worked out with dsl and a non
superuser acc't , i would bet you will be able to ssh to a machine..
-brett
On Sun Mar 11, 2001 at 03:56:27PM -0800, Carolyn Jean Fairman wrote:
>
> I installed and compiled ssh and ssh -V gives me a version number so I
> assmed I did it all right until (as root, see my earlier post) I found
> I couldn't ssh into anywhere! I can telnet just fine but Stanford
> soon will allow no unencrypted telnet sessions (plus they are a Bad
> Idea) and installing and configuring kerberos is daunting considering
> that I haven't figured even this out.
>
> What happens is that I startx and then in a shell window I ssh
> hostname. The connection hangs. I checked ps -e and no sshd is
> running so I started one by running sshd itself and even with the
> daemon running I can't get the connection. Using ssh -v I get that it
> connects to the remote host, or so it claims but then nothing else
> happens and it hangs. Any advice appreciated. I'm still working as
> root because then telnet does connect and I can check that.
>
> Carolyn Fairman
>
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