Hi, just wondering, what exactly is ssh. Would I be able to use it to connect to my Gentoo server and update it?

afraid to post, im gonna get beaten I'm sure

ssh is a remote shell login program (it gives you a bash prompt).

updating gentoo? uh... isn't that debian based? i don't remember. but with ssh you can do (basically) anything that you could do stitting at the actual computer (looking at a terminal of course, no X )

edit: wow I made it

No...Gentoo is source based...it isn't based on Debian at all. Anyways, thanks, I'll look up online how to get it set up once I get my server up and running.

As for the first part of your question:

ssh stands for secure shell, you can say that it is a secure version of telnet. ssh daemon usually runs on a linux box (or server) to allow other ssh clients to connect to the server.
A famous free ssh client on Windows OS is "putty", you can download it from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

If you are running linux, then you do not need to install an ssh client since it is usually installed with the default installation. All you need is to type "ssh user@remotehost" in your terminal (If it doesn't work then you probably donot have ssh client installed).

regards
-Khalid El-Gazzar

Alright, well, I just broke my Debian Unstable install on my server, but managed to save the data as it was on a different harddrive, so I am compiling Gentoo. Since I am doing this on a Pentium 3 500 MHz....it is taking quite a bit of time . I typed emerge system 3 hours ago and it is still going, I'll just check it in a couple more hours . So, when it is up a running, hopefully sometime this year , I will post back if I have any problems. Anyways, thank you for your input.

If my servers IP addy is 192.168.2.160 and the user is root...would I do it like this?

ssh root@192.168.2.160

or does it have to be a host name. Anyways, ttyl. Thanks again

type 'man ssh' and you will see :-

ssh (SSH client) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for
executing commands on a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin
and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two
untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary
TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

'man sshd' will give you more info on running the daemon which you will need to do on your Gentoo box such as

" sshd (SSH Daemon) is the daemon program for ssh(1). Together these pro_
grams replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications
between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. The programs are
intended to be as easy to install and use as possible.

"

Source code and more info at http://www.openssh.com/

HTH

lesleyb

yes

ssh root@192.168.2.160
or
ssh 192.168.2.160 -l root

You can use the IP address or the hostname in both cases

I would advise against logging in as root over any network connection.

Not that ssh is insecure, just that it's not good practice.

Take a look at the sudo command ('man sudo') and the /etc/sudoers file ('man sudoers').
It's a bit of a pain in the neck to configure sudo access for the things you might need to run with rootly powers but it is safer.

Regards

lesleyb