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I've installed openssh and trying to connect to a ssh server (I know this is working ok)
The problem I have is that I don't seem to have ssh - only ssh-keygen and ssh-keyscan
If I run ssh-keyscan with the host name I can see the key - do I need to install this locally? Should I have ssh (so I could rin ssh -l 12.12.12.12)?
if you installed the full openssh software, then you should also have a binary called ssh.
You dont need to manually install the host keys, ssh will ask you whther to add the key when a new key is encountered. They will be placed at ~/.ssh/known_hosts or some similar file.
With ssh the syntax is simply: ssh -l username host
If you omit -l username, it will use your current username as the login.
Originally posted by Artanicus if you installed the full openssh software, then you should also have a binary called ssh.
You dont need to manually install the host keys, ssh will ask you whther to add the key when a new key is encountered. They will be placed at ~/.ssh/known_hosts or some similar file.
With ssh the syntax is simply: ssh -l username host
If you omit -l username, it will use your current username as the login.
I used urpmi to install openssh - I assumed it was the full thing!
Seems very odd to me.. Well, you can allways do it the good'oläway and compile openssh yourself.. Thats the only watertight way of getting everything you want (:
Originally posted by Artanicus Seems very odd to me.. Well, you can allways do it the good'oläway and compile openssh yourself.. Thats the only watertight way of getting everything you want (:
May try that.....
Surely Mandrake don't have a cut down rpm on offer?
Not even mandriva would do that, but it is possible they could have sliced it into multiple packages. Tho I dont see any point in packing the extra ssh tools seperately from ssh itself.
Originally posted by Artanicus Not even mandriva would do that, but it is possible they could have sliced it into multiple packages. Tho I dont see any point in packing the extra ssh tools seperately from ssh itself.
I got the rpm from elsewhere - stil the same....surely something I'm doing wrong?!?
Do a find and only the 2 ssh tools....no ssh client
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