[thelist] Going crazy with SSH telnet

Warden, Matt mwarden at odyssey-design.com
Fri Aug 11 13:28:03 CDT 2000


Gina, are you able to connect using a regular telnet session? Try:

[Windows Key]+R
telnet machine.yourhost.com

Might take up to 10 seconds to connect.

if prompted, login and look and see if they have shh-keygen on the machine
(probably in /usr/local/bin (maybe /usr/bin or /bin)). Then, run it from
there.

Never done this before, but this is how I would approach it.

--
mattwarden
mattwarden.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gina K. Anderson" <gina at sitediva.com>
To: "Evolt" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: [thelist] Going crazy with SSH telnet


> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to set up, as cheaply as possible, my SSH capabilities
with
> my hosting package. I have about three hairs left, and I could use some
help. If
> anyone has any knowledge about this subject, I'd love some guidance before
I
> have a stroke :P It has to do with RSA keys and ssh-keygen:
>
> I don't telnet very often, but when I do I really need to. My hoster
wanted me
> to give them $25 to generate a key and install it on my server, however,
they
> gave me a free option to generate and upload my own key. I can do this
through
> my control panel. Since I am not planning to stay with this host long, I
decided
> there had to be a way I could do this myself and save the bucks--always
the
> cheapskate, plus I like to learn...this only brings me pain every once in
a
> great while :)
>
> Okay, my host is Linux/Apache. I have a Win98 machine. Stupid me thinks an
> PGP-generated RSA key might work, and uploaded my public key. Then I tried
to
> connect using a freeware SSH Telnet program called TerraTerm SSH, no luck.
>
> So I downloaded the ridiculously priced (for me) SecureCRT. Generated a
key,
> uploaded it, and everything works. However, I'm not going to pay their
price. I
> hoped TTSSH would work with that key, but not a chance. Supposedly, I need
to
> run a "real" RSA key by using ssh-keygen. I can't figure out how to use
it. The
> manual pages seem to read like I need to be the server administrator to
use
> ssh-keygen, and are geek-speak even to me :). There seems to be no way to
> generate one on your local machine you can just copy and paste out of.
>
> I feel like I am back to square one and have to give up the $25 bucks for
all
> this to work. All I need is an RSA key that will allow me to SSH telnet
into my
> account, be able to copy and paste that sucker into my control panel area,
and
> I'm set...now, how do I get an ssh-keygen RSA key if all I have access to
is my
> FTP space?
>
> Thanks,
> Bald Gina
>
>
>
>
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