Re: ssh basics

2000-09-09 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bret, I fully agree. I had already done the same. Regards Gustav Bret Hughes wrote: > Just to give myself a warm and fuzzy I also set the PermitRootLogin no > option > > Bret -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > > Just to give myself a warm and fuzzy I also set the PermitRootLogin no > option > Yep. Not a bad plan. Then you can always ssh in as a user and su to root, as needed. :-) John ___ Redhat-list maili

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-07 Thread Bret Hughes
Eric Sisler wrote: > Gustav, > > >Well, I wanted to replace rsh, rlogin, telnet and ftp within my small > >home LAN. (Currently 7 PCs with two more in the pipeline.) > > An admirable goal. ;-) I don't have any of the r* services installed on > any of my servers and ftp is only allowed on one an

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-07 Thread Eric Sisler
Gustav, >Well, I wanted to replace rsh, rlogin, telnet and ftp within my small >home LAN. (Currently 7 PCs with two more in the pipeline.) An admirable goal. ;-) I don't have any of the r* services installed on any of my servers and ftp is only allowed on one and only from specific hosts. B

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Eric, Well, I wanted to replace rsh, rlogin, telnet and ftp within my small home LAN. (Currently 7 PCs with two more in the pipeline.) Especially, I want to use ssh as the only way to login to my Internet Gateway (that I'm right now configuring for use with ADSL within a month or two). The Gatew

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Alan Mead
I echo what Eric said. You basically, install the RPM binaries and it works. Only thing you need to do is connect once to a new host (once per login) and say 'yes' (*not* 'y') to the prompt to store that hosts' cert. Oh, you have to start sshd in /etc/rc.d/init.d. If you don't have the RPM'

Re: ssh basics

2000-09-06 Thread Eric Sisler
Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyone knows where I can find some basic HOW-TO or equivalent covering >the practicals of configuring and using ssh, particularly openssh? There isn't really much to the basic install - you'll need openssh, openssh-server, openssh-clients and openssl