Re: sshd connection refused, and problems with mail list

[csimstemplar at flashcom dot net]

> Hi Corinna,
> I have responded to both the mailing list and your email, to insure that the message gets past the mail daemon.
Please, try to avoid that. If the mail doesn't show up in the
mailing list after a serious amount of time, say an hour or so,
you can mail it to me, ok?

I am still having a terrible time with the mailing list. I think part of the problem is with deja.com. They just switched their mailserver to bigmailboxes.com which red hat considers to be a spamer. The servious also seems to be loosing half the emails sent by the red hat server. For example, I found Corina's last reply in the mail archive. It never showed up in my mailbox!  Does anybody have any suggestions for other on line mail account?  I see that some of the people on the mailing list are using yahoo.

> I renamed the administrator account as johnl, this is a security trick, the  home directory listed in passwd for johnl is /bin/sh
Huh? That's a shell, no home directory. The home directory is the
field before the shell.

I went to the administrator tools and renamed the administrator account to johnl.


> Did you check> the permissions of ~administrator/.ssh and subsidiary files?> 
> there is no file or directory named, ~administrator/.ssh> 
> should this have been created?
You started ssh-config once, so .ssh (a directory) should exist.
At least when you started ssh-config as john1.
You know what I mean by ~administrator? It's the home of the user
administrator. In you case it's the home of user john1.

I deleted /etc/ssh*   and $HOME/.ssh  , and then reran ssh-config. I have permission to delete and create these files, is that what you mean?  I can't really read the contents of the various files to decipher the meaning.

Other things I have done:
I have tried all 4 cominations of yes and no for the following 2 lines in sshd_config:
######################
# To install for logon to different user accounts change to "no" here
RSAAuthentication no

# To install for logon to different user accounts change to "yes" here
PasswordAuthentication yes
####################

regardless of what I do, when I run sshd -d and ssh -v localhost, I still get permision denied.  I have also changed the password using the passwd command, and used that same password on the login from ssh. 

I don't understand the meaning of the following lines in /etc/passwd
############
Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-762067976-532226374-1540833222-501::/bin/sh
johnl::500:513:,S-1-5-21-762067976-532226374-1540833222-500::/bin/sh
johnl2::1001:513:,S-1-5-21-762067976-532226374-1540833222-1001::/bin/sh
TEX::1000:513:Steve Stewart,S-1-5-21-762067976-532226374-1540833222-1000::/bin/sh
############

I assume that these are hash values of the password I entered manually. 

During the ssh-config, I was prompted twices to enter a phrase, I entered the password for johnl, as the phrase.

It still doesn't work. Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in Advance,

Clark Sims



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