Connection Refused on ssh

[Janina Sajka]

Aha. Reading the file was useful! <grin>

The usual Redhat way of running ssh is to do:

service sshd start

Of course you can also ask for status:

service sshd status

And you get to turn it on when booting with:

chkconfig --level 35 sshd on

These are particularly nice features of Redhat/Fedora systems. They do a
nice job of managing provided services.

Rafael Skodlar writes:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:23:59AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a Redhat 8.0 system which I must access with ssh. ?However, 
> > whenever I give a ssh command it says "Connection refused". How can I get 
> > around this? Below is my sshd_config file, if anyone cares to look at it. 
> > Thanks!
> 
> Your config file has a line ListenAddress commented out. Uncomment it 
> and put IP number for interface you want to listen on. 0.0.0.0 means 
> listen on all interfaces and IPs.
> 
> That should make a difference.
> 
> > 
> > #	$OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.56 2002/06/20 23:37:12 markus Exp $
> > 
> > # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
> > # sshd_config(5) for more information.
> > 
> > # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
> > 
> > # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
> > # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
> > # possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options change a
> > # default value.
> > 
> > Port 22
> > Protocol 2
> > #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
> > #ListenAddress ::
> > 
> > # HostKey for protocol version 1
> > #HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
> > # HostKeys for protocol version 2
> > HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
> > HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
> > 
> > # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
> > KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
> > ServerKeyBits 768
> > 
> > # Logging
> > #obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging
> > SyslogFacility AUTH
> > #SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV
> > #LogLevel INFO
> > 
> > # Authentication:
> > 
> > LoginGraceTime 600
> > PermitRootLogin yes
> > StrictModes yes
> > 
> > RSAAuthentication yes
> > PubkeyAuthentication yes
> > #AuthorizedKeysFile	.ssh/authorized_keys
> > 
> > # rhosts authentication should not be used
> > RhostsAuthentication no
> > # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
> > IgnoreRhosts yes
> > # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
> > RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> > # similar for protocol version 2
> > #HostbasedAuthentication no
> > # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
> > # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
> > IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes
> > 
> > # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
> > PasswordAuthentication no
> > PermitEmptyPasswords no
> > 
> > # Change to no to disable s/key passwords
> > #ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
> > 
> > # Kerberos options
> > #KerberosAuthentication no
> > #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
> > #KerberosTicketCleanup yes
> > 
> > #AFSTokenPassing no
> > 
> > # Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver
> > #KerberosTgtPassing no
> > 
> > # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM keyboard-interactive authentication 
> > # Warning: enabling this may bypass the setting of 'PasswordAuthentication'
> > #PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt yes
> > 
> > X11Forwarding no
> > #X11Forwarding yes
> > X11DisplayOffset 10
> > #X11UseLocalhost yes
> > PrintMotd no
> > PrintLastLog yes
> > KeepAlive yes
> > #UseLogin no
> > UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
> > #Compression yes
> > 
> > #MaxStartups 10
> > # no default banner path
> > #Banner /some/path
> > #VerifyReverseMapping no
> > 
> > 
> > # override default of no subsystems
> > Subsystem	sftp	/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer
> > Computers to Help People, Inc.
> > http://www.chpi.org
> > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> 
> -- 
> Rafael
> 
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