Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
2008/4/25, Nathaniel Homier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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So I aptitude ssh and set it up according to this document:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services.en.html#s5.1
I get authentication failures. I am using Etch completely updated
on my home computer and was using the Ubuntu 8.04 live CD at my
mothers house. coming home and checking auth.log it said "Invalid
user ubuntu". On the live cd at my mothers house I used $ssh
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username on my home computer. I am looking to set up ssh to require
a username and password on my home computer but I am open to new
ideas if they are secure. I'll put my sshd_config and ssh_config on
my home computer below. Any recomendations on how to set up the
files on a live cd, soon to be a debian live cd.
Hi Nathaniel.
Normally, when sshd returns Invalid user it means that this user doesn't
exist. Wasn't this "invalid user ubuntu" an attempt you made with wrong
username?
And did you try just running 'ssh [computer host and domain]' and then
insert the user when asked?
Try some stuffs and send us the ssh client output when failed connecting.
Cheers,
Rafael
Well I was trying to setup key based authentication and I figured it out
I think. The rsa.pub key has to go into authorized_keys, and then I was
using a live cd and failed to generate the key and at any rate I had no
way to copy the key with password auth turned off. I also should
mention that I got rsa to work for the localhost. It looks to be a real
drag for non local servers and I think I may just use password auth
instead as that way I don't have to bother with key transport, otherwise
I think I would have to setup password auth anyway to allow me to copy
the key to the other server. With password auth all I need it the IP or
domain and I can just call ahead to get those for Allowuser parameter.
Another thing I did was to setup and install denyhosts package.
Denyhosts is really great for sshd setup with password auth.
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