Re: OpenSSH

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

Greetings.

* Allan Dib <dib.allan.l@edumail.vic.gov.au> [001117 19:56]:
> can anyone give me or point me to or give me EXACT instructions on connecting
> to an OpenBSD box (after a new clean install) from a Windows SecureCRT
> 3.12 client. I am ver confused by all these different
> options/keys/signitures encryption methods (RSA/DES/3DES/Blowfish). 

It has been a while since I have dealt with this, but my guess is that
it is something along these lines:
man afterboot
man ssl
<run the right commands mentioned from ssl(8). (Use non-us. RSA's patent
expired September 20.)>
man rc.conf
vi /etc/rc.conf
man sshd
vi /etc/sshd_config
reboot

Yeah, the reboot step can be avoided, but it is nice and easy this way.

I think this sequence will get you a reasonably secure sshd server. I
don't remember if this sequence will get you to a state where the client
can trust the server's key, but I think it will get you to a state where
all communications are encrypted.

HTH.

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