SSH question

[Fred Smith]

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
> 

Ah, yeah. these showed that it wasn't actually running. not sure why,
I used the gui services tool to enable and start it, or I think I did...
but a quick "systemctl start sshd.service" and "systemctl enable sshd.service"
seems to have fixed me up.

thanks Ed!

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                      to be sin for us, so that in him
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