Re: sshd

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:14:32PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote:
| I have installed the OpenSSH version of sshd using the Debian
| packages. However, when I try to ssh into my own machine, I get:
| 
| ssh -l me XXX.XX.XX.XX
| Secure connection to XXX.XX.XX.XX refused.
| 
| (XXX.XX.XX.XX is the IP of my box).
| 
| What do I need to do to fix this, so that anyone can ssh into my
| box?

Is sshd running (ps -A | grep sshd)?  Do you have a firewall that is
blocking connections?  Is 'me' == "root"?  Root logins should be
turned off in the sshd_config file.

-D