suse10.1 and ssh

[xunilsan]

Hi all,

I have recently upgraded my suse to 10.1 and now have problems with ssh and scp. ssh works from my laptop to all other machines but not the other way round. I even confirmed that the ssh server is installed (in yast). As this was a problem with Ubuntu where only the client is installed.

Ping on my hostname works from other machines but i am not able to connect to my machine using ssh from others. The command just hangs without any messages.

Can anyone please help.

thank you
xunil

[unchiujar]

Do you have port 22 open on router/firewall?
It's the default port for the SSH server

[xunilsan]

Hi unchiujar,

thank you for your reply.

How do we check whether port 22 is open or closed?

I do not have any firewall installed in suse.

xunil

[k_amisi]

You could be runnig the SUSEFIREWALL software ,try seeing if there are any rules by invoking on the shell,

#iptables -L -n -v

Also try SuSEFirewall that should least any rules, consequently you can use yast, via the security module to enable ssh(tcp port 22).

[xunilsan]

Hi k_amisi,

when i set the "ssh" as allowed services under "security" in yast, i am now able to connect to my laptop from outside machines. Thanks a lot for pointing to this.

I have noticed that when installing Fedora 6, these settings were asked. But strangely i do not remember suse installation to have asked me for these settings. it sounds stange that it automatically deselected all the services?

once again thanks a lot
xunil