[NBLUG/talk] the debian way

[Chris Palmer]

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Walter Hansen wrote:

> Likely causes of not being able to ssh in to the box as user or root?
> Putty comes up and asks for username and then password, but gets no
> further. I can ssh to localhost from the box as both. Hmm.

Run a separate instance of sshd with debugging options turned on, and
try again.

Also, don't allow remote root logins. It's tacky. :)

> /var/log/secure
> doesn't seem to be there so I'm not sure what log file to look in for
> clues. I probably should read up on the debian way.

Logging is controlled by /etc/syslog.conf (on all Linuxes, not just
Debian). You can see there that log facilities auth and authpriv.* are
logged to /var/log/auth.log. You could also have discovered this by doing:

    # cd /var/log
    # grep -il ssh *

> Also can someone tel me what happended to ll?

Different distributions have different shell configurations. ll was
never its own program, it is a shell alias created in one of the shell
configuration files. Do this:

    $ alias ll="ls -Altrh"

Or whatever you like. You can put that command in your ~/.bashrc as well.
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