I've got DSL set up on a box at home. I can putty over my network to my Ubuntu box, but not the DSL box.

I have SSHD running on the DSL box. What am I missing?

I googled for instructions, but couldn't find them, at least not clear ones that made sense.

Did you make sure the firewall is open to your SSH port?

This would be in my home network, not from outside.

Still a valid suggestion of something to look at..

Output of the following commands reveal anything ?

iptables -L - I guess this should be ACCEPT for all policies since you intimated that you don't have local firewall running on the box..

netstat -lanp | grep :22 - Is the SSH Daemon actually listening on all IP's and the correct port


another place to look if all of that is correct, is in the sshd_config

is sshd configured to use tcp wrappers ? if so is hosts.allow and hosts.deny configured correctly ?

Here's what I get:
root@box:/home/dsl# netstat -lanp |grep :22
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 708/sshd
root@box:/home/dsl# iptables -L
bash: iptables: command not found

root@box:/home/dsl# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.38 2001/04/15 21:41:29 deraadt Exp $



Port 22
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
ServerKeyBits 768
LoginGraceTime 600
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
PermitRootLogin yes
IgnoreRhosts yes
StrictModes yes
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog no
KeepAlive yes

SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO

RhostsAuthentication no
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
HostbasedAuthentication no
RSAAuthentication yes

PasswordAuthentication yes
PermitEmptyPasswords no







Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/sftp-server

root@box:/home/dsl# cat /etc/hosts.allow

# /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system.

ssh sshd : ALL@ALL : ALLOW
ALL : 127.0.0.1 LOCAL : ALLOW
ALL : ALL@ALL : DENY

nothing looks obviously out of place in your system configuration...

I updated my hosts.allow, with more detail about ssh and sshd.
It is working now.

I've limited it to in network, which is fine for me. Thanks for the help.