Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Karsten Mueller
Hello Mark! The latest version of CygWin toolkit contains OpenSSH 2.0pl1... along with all the other unix tools for win32... so you can just run ssh (including tunnels and other advanced features most term-emulators with ssh don't have) from your bash shell. Nice to hear. I found nothing

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Alan KF LAU | Beside, if one could use password authentication, why would one bother | to take all the trouble setting up RSA connection? :) Using ssh-askpass and then having passwordless connections? I am probably not the only one on this list getting my mail by POP-over-SSH. -- Tollef

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Karsten Mueller
Hello Mark! The latest version of CygWin toolkit contains OpenSSH 2.0pl1... along with all the other unix tools for win32... so you can just run ssh (including tunnels and other advanced features most term-emulators with ssh don't have) from your bash shell. Nice to hear. I found nothing

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Alan KF LAU | Beside, if one could use password authentication, why would one bother | to take all the trouble setting up RSA connection? :) Using ssh-askpass and then having passwordless connections? I am probably not the only one on this list getting my mail by POP-over-SSH. -- Tollef

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Karsten Mueller wrote: The latest version of CygWin toolkit contains OpenSSH 2.0pl1... along with all the other unix tools for win32... so you can just run ssh (including tunnels and other advanced features most term-emulators with ssh don't have) from your bash shell.

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:08:17PM +0300, Alan KF LAU wrote: My major concern is that if you enabled password authentication you'd leave your system vulnerable to brute force password attacked as in TELNET. Beside, if one could use password authentication, why would one bother to take all

Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Laurent Michel
Hi all, I am having some trouble configuring an ssh server on my machine. Here is the problem. My machine sits behind a firewall and ssh is the sole service exposed. I setup ssh and it appears to work normally, except that it keeps asking me for my "normal" password. The pass-phrase is never

RE: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Nov-2000 Laurent Michel wrote: Hi all, I am having some trouble configuring an ssh server on my machine. Here is the problem. My machine sits behind a firewall and ssh is the sole service exposed. I setup ssh and it appears to work normally, except that it keeps asking me for

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Alan KF LAU
The latest version of CygWin toolkit contains OpenSSH 2.0pl1... along with all the other unix tools for win32... so you can just run ssh (including tunnels and other advanced features most term-emulators with ssh don't have) from your bash shell. Aye, ssh port+tunnelling is the best option.

RE: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Nov-2000 Laurent Michel wrote: Hi all, I am having some trouble configuring an ssh server on my machine. Here is the problem. My machine sits behind a firewall and ssh is the sole service exposed. I setup ssh and it appears to work normally, except that it keeps asking me for my

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Alan KF LAU
I'm not sure whether it'd help, but that's what you should do after a clean install: Disable Rhost and password authentication, only enable RSA authentication. Append your public key of your client into /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys. Login with a ssh client with RSA support, like

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Laurent Michel
On Monday 06 November 2000 11:05, Alan KF LAU wrote: I'm not sure whether it'd help, but that's what you should do after a clean install: Disable Rhost and password authentication, only enable RSA authentication. Append your public key of your client into

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Nikolai Lusan
Alan KF LAU wrote: Disable Rhost and password authentication, only enable RSA authentication. Disableing rhosts yes, because that can cause a whole bunch of trouble. However I have a tendancy to leave passwords enabled as I need to access my machines from a lot of different places and I

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Alan KF LAU
I've tendency to use GPL software where it's available. :) Mindterm can be downloaded from http://www.mindbright.se/mindterm/

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Alan KF LAU
have a tendancy to leave passwords enabled as I need to access my machines from a incompitence) to set up RSA keys and the like from their boxen. Login with a ssh client with RSA support, like mindterm. In short, why would you use RSA when password auth. is available?

Re: Configuring ssh

2000-11-05 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Use PuTTY. Go to http://www.openssh.com/, click on Alternatives - For Windows Mac, and at the top is PuTTY. SSH2 support was only added quite recently, though, and hasn't made it into the stable distribution as of yet. Still, I use it whenever SSHing from Windows boxes. It's a small download,