I have a silly question... as usual.

I have a friend that is still using RH 7.3. It works great for him, but he's running telnet sessions and I'm trying to get ssh working for him as a better source of security, but I'm running into a few problems I hope someone can help with.

1. How do I get the sshd to start after the computer is rebooted? For some reason, the sshd doesn't come. It starts just fine after doing a /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start.

2. The IPchains firewall is also blocking any SSH connection from coming in. Can someone cut and past what needs to be added into the ipchains config file to allow anyone to connect via SSH? I'm having to turn the firewall off to get through and I don't know much about IPchains.

Thanks again for the help!

1) Try running:
chkconfig sshd on

2) If you aren't using a custom ruleset then just run "lokkit" and allow connections to port 22/tcp.

If you are only using the version that came with 7.3 then you should probably look at upgrading as there have been several security fixes since then:
http://www.openssh.org

I'm not to sure about the ipchains deal but I got ssh running on a 7.3 RH box (which is not in front of me and I have a firmware firewall locked down in front of that system right now DULP!). I seem to recall going in to etc/rc.d/??rc3.d?? not to sure the dir structure but where the run level 3 scripts are kept and if ssh was installed with the org. installation you should a bunch of links that begin with K## or S##.

The K is for kill and the S is for start the #'s are different numbers for process's. If you create a link for sshd that begins with S the system will start it every time you boot the box. Man ln for info on creating the link and 'less' or 'cat' some of the files in the rc3.d directory to see how to pass cmd line switches to the deamon..,
LOL

mijohnst:

The following commands will allow incoming SSH connections on any interface, these will need to be ran everytime the machine boots up.

You all are awesome... Thank you all for the replies!