Re: Enabling remote ssh access

From: Troy Piggins (usenet_at_piggo.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: 28 Mar 2005 23:54:05 GMT

* Dr. Oz wrote:
> I am working on a Linux network that was set-up by someone else and I
> need help enabling remote SSH access.
>
> Here's what I've done so far, but to no avail.
>
> iptables -A INPUT -p udp --sport 22 -j ACCEPT

Shouldn't that be:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

> and I've added the following to the hosts.allow file:
>
> ALL:ALL
> sshd:ALL

Note -------+ (not ssh_config)
            V
/etc/ssh/sshd_config add these lines :

PermitRootLogin no
AllowUsers troy

If you don't have strong passwords, you should look at public key auth
too. 

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