On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:49:13AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > Just trying to figure out what I need to get ssh working on my box. The docs 
> > are ok at openssh.org but kinda confusing to me, not sure where to start. So if 
> > someone can suggest a nice book or some hints that would be cool.
> 
> don't let the documentation overwhelm you... SSH is a very powerful tool;
> but it's also *really* simple to use. the SSH man page ought to start out
> with a 'quick start' paragraph; *then* launch into the scary whys and
> hows and wherefores.
> 
> most distros have ssh available as one of their packages now. install the
> openssh, openssh-client, and/or openssh-server packages (or whatever they're
> named in your preferred distro). openssl will be a requirement, so you will
> have to install that, if you don't have it already.
> 
> then just 'ssh <hostname>' from the box you installed on.
> to set up an ssh server; run /etc/init.d/sshd start (or whatever the path
> to the init script may be on your distro).
> 
> it's all a heck of a lot simpler than the documentation makes it appear at
> first. :)

But not that simple: I remember having to mess around a couple of days 'till
I figured out that I have to add sshd to "hosts.allow".

florin

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