[techtalk] How do I make the first ssh connection?

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:05:02AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Jen Hamilton thought:
> 
> A couple of things, 
> 
> First, Do you want to be ssh'ing to the ftp port (21)? 
 
I figure port 22 isn't allowed out through my work firewall and was trying
other ports that *are* allowed.  Secondly, I'm not running external ftp 
services anyhow so using port 21 isn't a problem.

> Secondly, authorized_keys is used for allowing one machine to ssh into
> another machine without using a password. You should still be able to
> connect without populating the authorized_keys file with the identity.pub
> key, you'll just have to enter the password. Also, the known_hosts file is
> populated when you are ssh'ing out, so you shouldn't have to populate that
> at all. 

Just trying stuff there.
 
> The third thing I'd check is the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
> files. Are they set to allow from the IP? 

hosts.allow has entries only for other local machines but a virtual
machine running in vmware and not listed in hosts.allow was able to
connect.

> If you are still stumped, I'd do a tcpdump to watch the communication
> between the hosts. 

Still stumped, I've asked work to enable port 22 for my work box so I'll
wait for that and see if I get any further.  I suspect it's the work
firewall now.

Conor
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