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I have been doing googling around since last three hours to find a tutorial how to connect from a windows machine to Slackware 12 machine.
Please give me some good link or guide me please.
Is the ssh daemon running? (check with ps -ef|grep ssh)
If not, do a chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd and /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start, and try again from the windows box.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong please, I always check the SSH server to 'on' during installation itself, so there might be additional steps required here.
I think that should do it. You may also want to change some settings in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (I always disable root logins and sometimes enable X forwarding depending on my intended use for the PC -- of course, X Forwarding doesn't work in Windows without installing a lot of Linuxy things [which isn't really worth it], so that's probably not an issue here).
I know that my password is correct because with the same password I am able to login as root on the Slackware machine. But with the same password I am denied access to the Slackware box. Is there any settings required to be done in some 'group' file?
I remember having done something of that sort on FreeBSD 6.2 .
Solved
Removed the line
Alloweduser xxxx,xxxx
which I had inserted in sshd_config file after reading somewhere about it.
Stopped SSH.
Started SSH.
I can not login to Slackware Box.
The gist of the exercsise is as under:
1. Obtain 'putty.exe' here
2. In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config, change Rootlogin no to yes.
You REALLY shouldn't log in as root over an ssh connection. If you insist as running as root in your normal operating environment, I would suggest adding a user just for ssh connections. There you can even su to root if you want, but I really wouldn't advise logging in as root over ssh. It would be a potential security risk -- if anyone intercepts your root password and decrypts it they could login to your box over ssh and do absolutely anything they want to your computer.
They make it difficult to operate as root in Linux (or more specifically Slackware) for a reason -- it's just stupid and doesn't really gain much.
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