[plug] ssh and telnet problem

[James Bromberger]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:26:46PM +0800, Carol Butler wrote:
> thanks for the help.. it just takes a while to login to the server... but it
> is strange.. the server logs into the workstation quicker than the
> workstation logs into the server... I do not know why this is

Just for fun, compare the configuration files of the two machines 
(/etc/ssh/sshd_config) and check they are the same. I have had problems 
with "Listen 0.0.0.0" on unstable on one machine (every other "unstable" 
distrirbution machine I have has been fine). You may get weirdness despite 
them being exactly the same, but its worth checking. However, I regularly 
SSH into machines that are 486 or Pentium, and they prompt for a 
passphrase/password within one second.


And watch out for the change of default SSH protocol in the new SSH 
packages in "unstable": version 2 is the default now, not version 1, so 
you should generate a new SSH2 keypair, with "ssh-keygen -t rsa": your 
public key needs to go into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 for machines you want to 
SSH into.

  James

(Excited that two of my pictures from the 1st Debian Conference are being 
considered for an article in a Finnish computer magazine...)
-- 
 James Bromberger <james_AT_rcpt.to> www.rcpt.to/~james

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