Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Steve wrote:
> I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I
> can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows
> box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but of course that is
> a client. Can anyone tell me where to start looking. I'm guessing
> that it's a daemon that I need to run.
I think the other replies have already covered setting up an OpenSSH server but
here are some useful commands to help you discover packages...
apt-cache search foo
will search through the packages and list matches to 'foo'. Additional
information about a package can be obtained using...
apt-cache show foo
this will list the details for the package 'foo'. Its also worth mentioning
that the apt-cache commands can be run as a regular user.
It took me a while to find these commands but I use them all the time now.
Hope that helps.
Gavin
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