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Re: [SLE] ssh on SuSE 10.0 OSS
- From: David Robertson <derobertson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:31:41 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511011731.17387.derobertson@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 11:11, John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 31 October 2005 10:54 pm, David Robertson wrote:
> > Not really a SuSE issue, I think, but I'd be grateful for any help, as
> > trawling through the man pages and google hasn't helped me.
> >
> > I'm trying to access my SuSE 10 OSS desktop from my Nokia Communicator
> > 9500 mobile 'phone, using PuTTY for symbian, but when I try to log in and
> > am asked for the user password, it is not accepted: I have not set up any
> > other passwords for ssh. According to the PuTTY for Symbian
> > documentation, I need to generate rsa keys (for ssh1): I have done this
> > (using ssh-keygen) and made sure that the private key is available on
> > both the 'phone and the desktop. Also, both protocols 1 and 2 are enabled
> > in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. I'm a bit stuck on where to go now and if anyone
> > could point me towards some possible solutions, I'd be grateful. I think
> > I need an idiots's guide to ssh so if anyone knows of a link, that might
> > help!
>
> You don't need to have the private key available on the phone, that
> is just ONE way of using ssh. The other way that you tried was
> passwords.
>
> The password method should always work. The others are a bit
> trickier. You need to look carefully at /etc/sshd.config (or wherever
> it is stored in SySE 10) and make sure that password authentication
> is turned on, and you probably want challenge-response off. I would
> only allow ssh2, but thats just me.
>
> Then you have to find out why that does not work, because if that
> won't work chances are there is something else going on.
>
> See if you can log into your machine from any other machine.
> This will test if there a bug in the phone's software.
>
> Once you know it works from somewhere else you can start
> tracking the differences.
Thanks John - I've tracked down the problem: PasswordAuthentication was set to
no in /etc/ssh/sshd_conf. Changing it to yes has sorted things. Must have
missed that one! Many thanks.
David
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> On Monday 31 October 2005 10:54 pm, David Robertson wrote:
> > Not really a SuSE issue, I think, but I'd be grateful for any help, as
> > trawling through the man pages and google hasn't helped me.
> >
> > I'm trying to access my SuSE 10 OSS desktop from my Nokia Communicator
> > 9500 mobile 'phone, using PuTTY for symbian, but when I try to log in and
> > am asked for the user password, it is not accepted: I have not set up any
> > other passwords for ssh. According to the PuTTY for Symbian
> > documentation, I need to generate rsa keys (for ssh1): I have done this
> > (using ssh-keygen) and made sure that the private key is available on
> > both the 'phone and the desktop. Also, both protocols 1 and 2 are enabled
> > in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. I'm a bit stuck on where to go now and if anyone
> > could point me towards some possible solutions, I'd be grateful. I think
> > I need an idiots's guide to ssh so if anyone knows of a link, that might
> > help!
>
> You don't need to have the private key available on the phone, that
> is just ONE way of using ssh. The other way that you tried was
> passwords.
>
> The password method should always work. The others are a bit
> trickier. You need to look carefully at /etc/sshd.config (or wherever
> it is stored in SySE 10) and make sure that password authentication
> is turned on, and you probably want challenge-response off. I would
> only allow ssh2, but thats just me.
>
> Then you have to find out why that does not work, because if that
> won't work chances are there is something else going on.
>
> See if you can log into your machine from any other machine.
> This will test if there a bug in the phone's software.
>
> Once you know it works from somewhere else you can start
> tracking the differences.
Thanks John - I've tracked down the problem: PasswordAuthentication was set to
no in /etc/ssh/sshd_conf. Changing it to yes has sorted things. Must have
missed that one! Many thanks.
David
--
Registered Linux User No 207521
The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/
"The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the
little voices in my head."
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