[Tfug] Setting up SSH

George Cohn gwcohn at simplybits.net
Fri Feb 23 13:33:08 MST 2007


Christopher Robbins wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to set up SSH on Debian ETCH. Looking at the man page, I
>>find a long list of files and directories listed. I also googled and
>>went over several web pages. Is it necessary to create all of these
>>files and directories?
> 
> Should it just be  -
> 
> apt-get install ssh
> 
> And done?  Perhaps open the firewall to 22 as well?
> 
>    -Chris
> 

That's all I've ever needed to do.

And if you run a windows box, download Putty and Putty Secure Copy to 
it.  That way you can cut and paste stuff from your windows machine to 
the Linux machine.

I don't even have a monitor attached to my Debian server most of the time.

George Cohn




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