uninstalling ssh

[antonysunny]

One of our user is getting connection lost frequently while using PUTTY..it stays active active for 1/2 an hour and then it becomes inactive...

So i opened putty and loaded that ip and went to connection and there was an option to keep the connection alive ..i increased it to 60 before it was 0..and saved that session settings..

the user was trying to connect to fedora 11....so i suspected it might be an issue with the ssh packages...so i would like to know the command to uninsatll the ssh and reinstall it again..
Thank you

[Roxoff]

Hmmm. This isn't the sort of operating system where you need an uninstall followed by a re-install of a package to miraculously fix problems caused by a broken configuration (which cannot be modified in any other way).

The disconnection here is down to timeouts. I don't recommend you do this as you'll be taking away the server's ability to detect if the other end of the connection has died and free up associated resources.

But if you're sure you want to turn this option off, then edit the file /etc/sshd_conf and restart the ssh service with 'service sshd restart' as root. This ssh server config file has plenty of comments inside it to guide you.