Comments on: Beginning SSH on Ubuntu

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:47:50 +0000

Thanks Brian. This is exactly what I was looking for.

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:17:41 +0000

awesome, thank you.

By: Peter O'Doherty

Peter O'Doherty — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:20:34 +0000

Great tutorial! Well written and easy to follow. Inspired me to install ubuntu on an old computer I had lying around without keyboard or screen and now I can talk to it using ssh. Thanks!

By: Anthony Wlodarski

Anthony Wlodarski — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:30:52 +0000

Thank you for writing this up. I never installed ssh keys before and thanks to the easy explanation I was enjoying easier and more secure logins.

Thanks!

By: Donny Bahama

Donny Bahama — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:31:45 +0000

A bit more info...

I had ssh'ed into cinemaloha when it was using DHCP. At that time, I was (successfully) using the name rather than the IP. When I saw this wonderful guide, I thought, "better give it a static IP before setting up the host entry." After doing so I was still able to ssh via the IP, but not by the hostname. I then setup the host entry per this guide, tried to ssh in, got the err msg above. Next I tried pinging cinemaloha. The pings were going to the old (DHCP) address (and of course, failing.) Is there some sort of local DNS cache?

By: Donny Bahama

Donny Bahama — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:19:54 +0000

Hmmm. Doesn't work for me. After entering the host info and trying "ssh cinemaloha" I get... "ssh: connect to host cinemaloha port 22: No route to host" :(

Any suggestions?

By: vishal

vishal — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:54:39 +0000

Nice article It’s Helpful for us

By: Gullele

Gullele — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:41:10 +0000

It is well written and nice one.

By: AOD

AOD — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:32:27 +0000

After much hunting through the web, wasting a lot of time plus a number of false starts, your tutorial for setting up an SSH client/server was the only one that got my system configured correctly. It's well written and follows a logical pattern - thanks very much.

Alan

ps fancy having a go at "howto" set up a chroot jail!!!!

By: Eats Wombats

Eats Wombats — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:07:23 +0000

Update:

My mistake was painfully simple: trying to SSH in the wrong direction, from the machine with the public key.

I’m not the only one to have done this so I posted a note to launchpad suggesting some clarification of the docs which are not at all clear on this (as well as on the authorized-keys filename). A diagram would help too.

I should say that the PubkeyAuthentication was already done and that no changes are needed to sshd_config at all.

This is helpful:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=238672