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01-02-2006, 01:51 AM
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Do I need ssh running?
Hello
I have only one computer, I connect to nothing, and noone connects to me. Do I need ssh running at all?
Thanks.
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01-02-2006, 01:56 AM
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Location: London, UK
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It sounds like you don't.
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01-02-2006, 02:08 AM
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Good stuff. I am on Suse10 and have a the suse firewall running along with a firewall router. I am running apache, mysql but don't have the site available to the public yet. I'm not sure if having apache mysql running will have anything to do with ssh or not.
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01-02-2006, 02:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by reesee
I'm not sure if having apache mysql running will have anything to do with ssh or not.
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Nope. You only need the SSH server running if you want to log in to your system (or let others log in) remotely.
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01-02-2006, 03:11 PM
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Great, Thank-You Nylex.
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01-02-2006, 04:21 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
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Since ssh is "a shell," with the possibility that anyone who can succeed in connecting to it might be able to try passwords, I would suggest that you stop sshd until and unless you are actually using it.
If and when you do, take the time to study the configuration-file and the various other man pages on this service; don't just flip-on the switch using the configuration as provided by the distro vendor without reviewing it first.
This really applies to any service/daemon: - Know which services you are running.
- Know why you are running them.
- Understand the configuration-file settings of each one.
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01-02-2006, 10:40 PM
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Hello sundialsvcs
I do take some measures before I knew if i need ssh running or not, like not permitting root login, and only allowing porotocol 2. Now that I know I don't need it running I will disable it all together via system services.
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01-02-2006, 11:01 PM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Distribution: Suse, Mandrake, IPCop, Debian, Slackware
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You won't need SSH at this point in time.
Did you turn SSH on in the install? Suse by default has it disabled.
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