RE: [cobalt-users] SSH1 or 2 on RaQ4?

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> what cipher and SSH server do i have to select for this to
> work?  does the RaQ4 support SSH1 or 2?  if not what do i
> have to load so that it does?

Paul,

If you have to ask whether SSHd is installed, then this is the first
question to be answered. One way I can think of to figure this out is to
go to a shell prompt and type:

rpm -qa | grep ssh

This will produce a list of all the RPM packages installed on the server
(rpm query all) and pipe it to the grep command, which will pick out and
show you only packages that contain the characters 'ssh' in their names.

Then, if it's installed, go read the documentation for the particular
version of the package you have and figure out the rest. If not
installed, read the archives of this list to figure out which to
install. Some pointers:

* OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.org or http://www.openssh.com, I don't
remember) is free; SSH is not free.

* SSH-1 protocol has an inherent weakness in it, recently found. Forget
it and stick with SSH-2, with either 3-DES or Blowfish encryption.

* I suggest you start with Putty as your SSH client; free and easy,
that's what I'm using so far.

Now, I confess I don't know how SSH works; on my RedHat box, where SSH
was installed by the setup program when the box was set up, it worked
auto-magically. I didn't setup anything or configure anything; Putty
figured it out. So I'm not going to be of much help.

--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>