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[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 November 2009 13:46:41 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 13:27 +0000, Bob Williams wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to recycle an old machine as a headless server alongside my
> > main desktop machine. The two machines will be linked through my ADSL
> > router. I have done a standard openSUSE + KDE4.1 install on it, but now
> > need to get it able to run in headless mode.
> >
> > I have set the BIOS to 'Halt on none', so hopefully it will boot without
> > mouse, keyboard or monitor.
> >
> > I now need to set it to boot into runlevel 3, as there is no need for a
> > GUI, but I am not sure which file(s) need editing.
>
> /etc/inittab
>
> Change the line:
>
>       id:5:initdefault:
>
> to be:
>
>       id:3:initdefault:
Thank you. I've now got my server booting to a login prompt at run level 3.

The problem now is ssh :( . I've generated a pair of keys on my desktop 
machine and copied the resulting id_dsa.pub key into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on 
the headless server. The sshd_config file on the headless server contains the 
following lines:

Protocol 2
PasswordAuthentication no
UsePAM yes
X11Forwarding yes
Subsystem       sftp    /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES
AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT
AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL

but all I get when I try to connect is:

21:08 barrowhillfarm:~> ssh bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.12 port nnnn: Connection timed out

The desktop machine is configured to use a high numbered port nnnn rather than 
22 as I was getting a lot of unwanted login attempts on port 22. However, I'm 
assuming that an ssh request from desktop to headless will try port 22 on the 
headless server.
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