[TriLUG] SSH and MSEC again

[Tanner Lovelace]

Aaron Caudle said the following on 7/6/04 3:38 PM:

> Hello,
> I have read the man pages and the Mandrake articles on msec, but I am just
> unable to get remote ssh connections to one of my servers.
> Just some background info
> msec level 4
> sshd is running
> firewall off
> 
> 	hosts.allow
> 		ALL: internal/subnetmask
> 
> Well thats all i know to include.  I know its something really simple but it
> sure is frustrating.  The mandrake article on msec is from 2002 and I don't
> believe its been updated for a while.
> 
> The easy way would to be just turn down the security level (obviously) but I
> want to understand why its not working.
> 


Have you checked the logs to see what they say when you try to connect remotely
with ssh?  They should give a reason why it's failing.

Cheers,
Tanner