Hello again, I have finally come to the conclusion that Telnet is inferior and I have chosen to install SSH. I have installed SSH 1.2.x (OpenSSH ?) from the UK Debian mirror (client & server) The Debian machine will allow SSH access from a RedHat 6.1 laptop. On the laptop I installed newest RPMS of OpenSSH (2.x) found on the OpenSSH website. To simplify the installation (or so I thought), I read the LinuxNewbie NHF on installing & configuring SSH. What I did was, I generated the two keys using "ssh-keygen" on both machines. I then copied $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub to "authorized_keys", also on both machines. And then I ftp'ed both identity.pub files across, so that the Debian key was on the RH laptop and the RH key was on the Debian machine. I then did this :
"cat identity.pub >> authorized_keys" on both machines. Then on the RH laptop I type, "ssh -l oliverh -v 192.168.1.x" and then I should be able to log-on.... Sadly, this is not the case. Instead I get an error message: "The authenticity of host '192.168.1.x' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" What exactly have I done wrong ? Oliver
