OpenSSH Problems

[XiLe]

I'm running Mandrake 8.2 (yeah its pretty old since 10 is coming out but it works for me) I installed OpenSSH... I have been trying to locate the files to simply start it up.. could you tell me how to start it, and if there's anything else I need to know?

OpenSSH Install Information:

Packages openssh and openssh-server, both version 3.6.1p2-1.2.82mdk

[krohnjw]

/etc/init.d/sshd start will start the service
There should be a gui tool to start it on boot, otherwise you will need to place an init script in your appropriate /etc/rcX.d directory, most likely 5

[flashingcurser]

It should be something like this:

/usr/bin/ssh username@the.ip.address.here -p ###portnumber


The -p switch can be left off if you use the standard port (22). If ssh is in your path then you will probably not need to put the /usr/bin in front of it.

[XiLe]

Okay... I'm a linux noob lets put it that way... so in console I should type...

/usr/bin/ssh trevor@localhost

??? I tried that and I got the error:

bash: /usr/bin/ssh: no such file or directory

[krohnjw]

did you install the ssh client?
If so it *should* be in your path.
To make an ssh connection just type
ssh username@hostname.of.server

You will need to have the ssh server runnign to make a connection though, if you are running on localhost then just make sure it is running
/etc/init.d/sshd start

[XiLe]

I'm trying to use the server... I didn't know there was an OpenSSH client too.

I did /etc/init.d/sshd start and got this error:

bash: /etc/init.d/sshd: bad interpreter: Permission denied

[krohnjw]

It appears you are not root. You will need to be root to start the ssh server.

[XiLe]

Done... will it start on its own every time now? Or do I have to su in to start it every time i boot the machine?

[krohnjw]

Well, it may. You should look at the GUI services tool and it will tell you.
You can do a quick check by running
ls /etc/rc5.d/ |grep ssh

If it returns an Sxx script, (where xx) are numbers it will start on boot.

You can substitue your favorite run level number for other runlevels, but I would imagine you are booting to 5.

[XiLe]

Nope... it didn't show up... oh well. I don't plan on rebooting this thing too often, and when I do su isn't that hard of a command to remember Thanks for your help