basic networking/ssh question

I set up a new machine yesterday, then tried to ssh in from across the network.. and nothing happened - not even an error message.

How do I open up port 22, or start the sshd to allow incoming connections?

I'll carry on fiddling and post back if I solve it.

thanks
christo

I should point out, this machine is running Linux 2.4.7-10

I can expand on this a little.. I just tried as root to start the sshd daemon, and it's nowhere to be seen. whereis can't find it in my path, so I fear that it isn't installed -

ssh is fine. I can connect to other machines, but they just can't connect to me !

where can I find the sshd programme? I have googled for it and not find it so far

thanks
christo

you can find it here www.openssh.org . . .

INSTALL instructions:
ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBS...ortable/INSTALL

*note: you need to install Zlib and OpenSSL before you can properly install OpenSSH.

If you are using RPMS then you need the openssh-server package installed and then start it from the init.d scripts. If you are compiling from source then start the ssh daemon (sshd).

Be sure your firewall (iptables) will accept ssh connections.

okay guys,

Thanks for your help. I downloaded openssh and build it from source.. then I setup the privileged sshd user and fired up the daemon.. This looks successful so far:

[root@chris sbin]# ps -ef | grep ssh
root 7741 1 1 14:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/sshd
root 7746 7679 0 14:16 pts/3 00:00:00 grep ssh

Then I tried to connect from another machine on the network and nothing happened.. here's the output:

root@pinky:~# ssh root@192.168.1.25

root@pinky:~#

there was a long pause in between.
I ran netstat and the following (below) was returned, which makes me think that the port is open and listening, so perhaps there is a bit more I need to set up locally.. any ideas?

root@pinky:~# netstat -tpl 192.168.1.25
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:whois *:* LISTEN 71/inetd
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 74/sshd

many thanks,
christo

er all fixed now.
pinky is outside our firewall
all machines inside can connect :o)

thanks,
christo

Assuming redhat:

In newer versions it is controlled by the xinetd daemon. You probably needed to run ntsysv to enable it.

You don't have to run ssh via xinetd if you are running Red Hat. I just have the daemon listening all the time.