On 7/1/05, Nathan Zabaldo <nate@teradigm.us> wrote:
I've read the manual on how to generate keys, but it is too cryptic for me
not being a linux guy quite yet.
I thought you were using OS X? ;-)
Please someone spell it out for me. This is what I am looking for please
fill in the blanks.
I hate fill-in-the-blank tests >:-[
On my box I have users that I have set up that I want to be able to use
Putty to connect remotely via sshd. Sshd is now installed and up and
running. For my users to connect I have to (blank) in each of my user's
accounts.
Nothing. SSH should allow you to log in as anybody (except maybe root)
without doing anything to any accounts. (To log in as root, you'll
need to [un-]comment a line in the sshd_config file. Leave this alone
for now since root login is disabled for a reason!)
For example in a terminal on the box when I am logged into a users account
type in:
(Please fill in the blank.)
From an xterm, you should just have to type: ssh user@localhost
You can do fancier stuff like compression and X-forwarding with flags
(-C and -X, respectively). X-forwarding over SSH is much easier than
whatever you do without it. Then you can create SSH tunnels using -L
and -R.
PuTTY should only require the server name. It will prompt you for
username and password.
The previous suggestion of installing "normally" from the command line
might work better than installing from Webmin. Webmin might use
special configuration methods that openssh doesn't expect.
If you've not installed from source before, this might get a little
tricky. Basically, I think you'll need to install fink (? for GNU
stuff to run?), openssl (provides the library that openssh uses for
encryption), and openssh (duh). I think the "standard" ./configure &&
make && make install is all that's required, but one of the packages
(openssl or openssh, I forget which) uses ./config or ./Config, so be
careful!
I'm sure this is simplistic to some people out there, but rocket science to
a Windows guy trying to get away from Windows.
The learning curve is high, but the payoff is great.
There. How'd I do? :-)
-Andy
