[TriLUG] iptables/ipchains (WAS: Security woes)

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:53, Lisa Lorenzin wrote:
> openssh shouldn't require xinetd - it has its own control script.  i don't 
> think that the installation starts the daemon by default, but i could be 
> mistaken.  do a ps -ef | grep sshd to check and see if it's running - if 
> not, run the command 
> 
> /etc/init.d/sshd start
> 
> to start up the ssh server.  if you don't get any errors off that, and you
> can see sshd running in the process, then crank up an ssh client and see
> if you can connect to it.  (if you're running a windows ssh client like
> securecrt, you may need to specify a standard ssh server rather than a
> data fellows ssh server in the properties for the connection, or it will
> give you errors when trying to connect).

If that works for you, make sure you then do the command:

chkconfig sshd on

so that it will run when you boot the computer.  (Assuming,
of course, you're running RedHat or Mandrake, perhaps
others...)

Tanner
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