SSH

Table of Contents

Tools

• Putting sshd on a higher port
• Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager
• KTunnel is a KDE 2.0 SSH tunnel manager
• Very good - Samba SSH Tunnel Howto
• Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks With DenyHosts
  • DenyHosts at SourceForge
• sshUserSetup.sh
  • This script is used to setup SSH user equivalence from the host on which it is run to the specified remote hosts. After this script is run, the user can use SSH to run commands on the remote hosts or copy files between the local host and the remote hosts without being prompted for passwords or confirmations.
• Keychain
• IBM developerWorks Common threads: OpenSSH key management, Part 1 Understanding RSA/DSA authentication
• IBM developerWorks Common threads: OpenSSH key management, Part 2 Introducing ssh-agent and keychain
• IBM developerWorks Common threads: OpenSSH key management, Part 3 Agent forwarding and keychain improvements
• Secure your SSH server with Public/Private key authentification -- page 1
• Secure your SSH server with Public/Private key authentification -- page 2
• Secure your SSH server with Public/Private key authentification -- page 3
• DSA protocol 2 - Setup the SSH server to use keys for authentication
• Setup the SSH server to use keys for authentication

Error Messages

• channel 1014: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
  • Possible Fix