still no ssh access

Rich Edelman redelman at speedscript.com
Thu Sep 30 14:05:00 CDT 2004


On Thursday 30 September 2004 01:40 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> Interesting, but I have already been able to use Putty on a PC in my LAN. 
> It worked with no change.
>
> Brian Kelsay
>
> >>> Rich Edelman <redelman at speedscript.com> 09/30/04 01:39PM >>>
>
> What I've found I needed to do to allow PuTTY and WinSCP clients to connect
> is to change the sshd config.
> These are the options I needed to change, keep in mind this has been on
> SuSE 9.x, your distribution may vary.
>
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
> #PasswordAuthentication no
> #PermitEmptyPasswords no
> UsePAM yes

One other thing I found I needed to due on the firewall itself, that I just 
remembered about, it specify --syn in the ACCEPT rule for ssh. 

Rich



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