SSH question

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 07:29:00PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 06:31:39AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 06/13/14 06:12, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I feel dumb having to ask this, I feel I should know the answer, but
> > > can't dredge it up.
> > >
> > > I've recently installed F20 on my old eeepc, where it seems to run fine,
> > > btw, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to connect to it from
> > > another system with ssh.
> > >
> > > I've made sure that sshd is installed, and "systemctl list-unit-files"
> > > shows it as enabled. As far as I can figure out how to use the relatively
> > > new firewall app (and I have to admit some hesitance there since I'm
> > > not sure I really DO understand it...) the necessary ports are open.
> > >
> > > however when I attempt to connect to it with ssh from another box I get
> > > I get an instantaneous "ssh: connect to host 192.168.2.117 port 22:
> > > connection refused".  And when I attempt to connect back to itself:
> > > "ssh -X fredex at localhost" I get the same thing.
> > >
> > > If someone can give me a whack on the head (designed to joggle my brains
> > > a bitg--in a good way) I'd appreciate the guidance.
> > >
> > 
> > Just a bit of information.....
> > 
> > If you see "No route to host" on an ssh connection it would indicate the port is closed.
> > When you see "connection refused" it means there is no process bound to the open port.
> > 
> > So you should see....
> > 
> > [egreshko at meimei ~]$ netstat --tcp -ap | grep ssh
> > (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
> >  will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
> > tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:ssh             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                  
> > tcp6       0      0 [::]:ssh                [::]:*                  LISTEN      -
> > 
> > and ....
> > 
> > [egreshko at meimei ~]$ ps -eaf | grep sshd
> > root      1269     1  0 Jun12 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
> > 
> > and ...
> > 
> > [egreshko at meimei ~]$ systemctl status sshd.service
> > sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon
> >    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; enabled)
> >    Active: active (running) since Thu 2014-06-12 08:48:39 CST; 21h ago
> >  Main PID: 1269 (sshd)
> >    CGroup: /system.slice/sshd.service
> >            └─1269 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
> > 
> 

Oh duh, please ignore this. too many keyboards sitting in front of me,
I ran it on the wrong one.

I'll get back later with info from the right one.

Fred
> Thanks... Yeah, all three of those commands give the output you show.
> 
> Any further thoughts?
> 
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