Janina, well, adding that line to /etc/hosts.allowed didn't jork. The machine won't even respond to telnet when I use its IP address. It will respond to ping, however. I'm beginning to think I should call that machine the mule, because it's so stubborn. John On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > John J. Boyer writes: > > When I try ssh with -v I get a number of debug limes. the only one which > > seems significant is > > sss_connect: needpriv 0 > > OK. Two questions ... > > 1.) Did you ascertain that sshd is indeed listening? > > nmap -P0 [your.address] |grep 22 > > Here's an example of what you should get from my machine: > > nmap -P0 66.92.170.84 |grep 22 > 22/tcp open ssh > > 2.) Is ssh allowed by /etc/hosts.allow in the target machine? Look > for something like: > > sshd: all > > Specific names/addresses/masks are also acceptable, if you want to keep > this machine restricted. Example: > > sshd: 192.168.1. > > Note the trailing '.' > > Something like: > > all: all > > would also work, but isn't really advisable from a security perspective. > > If you don't have such a line in /etc/hosts.allow, put one in and > restart sshd like this: > > service sshd restart > > HTH. > > Janina > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list