[thelist] [SOLVED- Matt] Going crazy with SSH telnet

[Gina K. Anderson]

Hi Matt,

I couldn't telnet without an SSH connection and keypair, they forbid it which is
cool with me-I like having the extra security. I did know the path to ssh-keygen
on the server machine because I looked it up using SecureCRT. I had a win32
ssh-keygen on my hard drive, and I tried using it. It didn't work of course, but
I saw what I was supposed to do to get the key generated right.

I tried running keygen from the path given from my query and--I'M IN!!! I saved
the generated private and public keypair to my www/ directory so I could get to
them, took them off the ftp space onto my hard drive, then copied an pasted the
pub key into my control panel-viola! My TTSSH works now, I am happily telneting
:)

Thanks for persuading me to try it :)

Gina

|-----Original Message-----
|From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
|[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Warden, Matt
|Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 2:24 PM
|To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
|Subject: Re: [thelist] Going crazy with SSH telnet
|
|
|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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