Good morning Michael!
its really not very complicated. i install 8.0, i install the current openssl and openssh packages off the suse ftp site, now ssh does not start at boot time. period, simple as that. i've been using suse since before 5.1, so i have done an install or two.
When updating a number of machines to SuSE 8.0, I had the same problem on one of them. It turned out that /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S10sshd (which is a softlink to/etc/init.d/sshd) had not been generated. After running the command insserv sshd everything worked fine. The link should be present in /etc/init.d/rc3.d and in /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ . Apart from the above, it is worth checking if "rcsshd start" successfully starts the SSH daemon. Something like "sshd[1219]: Server listening on :: port 22." should appear in /var/log/messages. Best wishes, Nico van Eikema Hommes -- Dr. N.J.R. van Eikema Hommes Computer-Chemie-Centrum hommes@chemie.uni-erlangen.de Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Phone: +49-(0)9131-8526532 Naegelsbachstrasse 25 FAX: +49-(0)9131-8526565 D-91052 Erlangen, Germany