Re: SSH through wireless router

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:39:11PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I have a laptop (sidux on Thinkpad X61s) that connects via wi-fi to
> the wireless router connected to my desktop machine (etch) via CAT5,
> which has the name "teufel".
> 
> I can connect to the router, which I name "router", by:
> 
>   $ ssh router
> 
> but then I'm stuck with the password. I've tried the password I use to
> administer the router without luck. 

ssh implicitly provides your local user name as the user on the
remote end;  maybe try it with an explicit user name, e.g.:

    $ ssh admin@router

Ken

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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu