Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 10 Aug 04, 5:02 PM, Matthew Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Wow...apologies for the bad posting...just my newbie-ness shining through, I guess. Really, I had no idea. I always did wonder what mutt was for...just haven't had time to research it. If fact that brings me to another

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-11 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:16:32AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: people here love to answer questions. and we have a very supportive environment. not too many questions go unanswered on this list. Hehe, I just had a funny thought: go through the vox-tech archives and look for unanswered

RE: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-11 Thread Matthew Lange
95616 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Kendrick Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:39 AM To: lugod's technical discussion forum Subject: Re: [vox-tech] SSH question On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:16:32AM -0400

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:24:57PM -0700, Matthew Lange wrote: Unfortunately, I can't remember the config file(s) that I need to adjust manually to allow SSH access, can anyone help? Check /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny Just stabbin in the dark ;) -bill!

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 02:24 pm, Matthew Lange wrote: Hi all, I'm helping a friend back-up his files on his RH 8 machine. I'm trying to SSH in, but getting denied. I tried using the RH GUI to adjust the firewall settings to allow incoming SSH sessions, but after they appear to set,

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 10 Aug 04, 2:24 PM, Matthew Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, I'm helping a friend back-up his files on his RH 8 machine. I'm trying to SSH in, but getting denied. I tried using the RH GUI to adjust the firewall settings to allow incoming SSH sessions, but after they appear to

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread ME
(Top posting in this case for flow and order of procedure) As others have covered different parts, I'll try to avoid repeating what they have written: Make sure that the ssh service is running: $ ps -auxw | grep sshd Make sure it is listening to the ssh port: $ netstat -a | grep ssh should give

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:47:29PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Also, please do not start a new thread by replying to an old one and changing the subject line. Many of us use threaded mailers like mutt. It's kinda annoying. Thanks. (Plus, the mail archives have a threaded display mode,

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Jan W
My $0.02: If you want to make sure that iptables never starts again (assuming that it runs at boot): # chkconfig --level 345 iptables off Other than that, the stuff mentioned (hosts.allow/deny, telnetting to the port, looking through logs, capture with tcpdump) is all great advice. HTHO, jan

RE: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Matthew Lange
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Kendrick Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:57 PM To: lugod's technical discussion forum Subject: Re: [vox-tech] SSH question On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:47:29PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Also, please do not start a new thread by replying to an old

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:02:07PM -0700, Matthew Lange wrote: Wow...apologies for the bad posting...just my newbie-ness shining through, I guess. Really, I had no idea. Heh - No prob. I always did wonder what mutt was for...just haven't had time to research it. It's a really nice mail

RE: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread ME
Matthew Lange said: For you gurus, this may seem like a trivial point...but for folks like me who are able but unaware, some sort of linux 'product' dictionary would be helpful. Does anyone know of any online resource? Perhaps LUGOD should have it's own... Yep. It is called google. Go

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:21:12PM -0700, ME wrote: Yep. It is called google. Go there, and enter the keyword define: and then place the term or word right after it. It does a pretty good job of providing defs. Holy moley. How did I not know about that! Time to buy Google: The mIssing Manual

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:02:07 -0700 Matthew Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow...apologies for the bad posting...just my newbie-ness shining through, I guess. Really, I had no idea. I always did wonder what mutt was for...just haven't had time to research it. If fact that brings me to

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread ME
Bill Kendrick said: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:21:12PM -0700, ME wrote: Yep. It is called google. Go there, and enter the keyword define: and then place the term or word right after it. It does a pretty good job of providing defs. Holy moley. How did I not know about that! Time to buy

Google Fu (was re: [vox-tech] SSH question)

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:36:42PM -0700, ME wrote: Search for all sites which have links to the defcon home page which are not from defcon.org but mention defcon: Google search: link:http://www.defcon.org/ -site:defcon.org defcon Yes. The -site is a subtraction of all hits that are from

Re: Google Fu (was re: [vox-tech] SSH question)

2004-08-10 Thread ME
Bill Kendrick said: ME: google sample snip Well, seen THAT. Alta Vista did/does something similar ;) How about the cache: feature from google? Say you know a /. story is big and everyone is looking at the page. If google was able to index it before the site was slashdotted, you can do this: