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jeff36
Jan 03, 2012Aspirant
ssh as admin
Ultra6 with RAIDiator 4.2.19. I've installed "enableSSH" and the port is open. Using putty from Windows7 gets me the login prompt, but using admin/password closes the ssh window immediately. If I use...
jeff36
Jan 05, 2012Aspirant
Ok, thanks! That explains the failure of the shell. Obviously I am not a *nix guru.
I had thought that enablessh was all that was needed for non-root access, but there is not much documentation on that. I guess that VMware has some proprietary way to ssh in without EnableRootSSH being installed.
I had thought that there was a way to ssh in without doing it as root, but now that I know more, going in as root is acceptible. I have installed EnableRootSSH and that works fine.
Thanks for the explanation!
I had thought that enablessh was all that was needed for non-root access, but there is not much documentation on that. I guess that VMware has some proprietary way to ssh in without EnableRootSSH being installed.
I had thought that there was a way to ssh in without doing it as root, but now that I know more, going in as root is acceptible. I have installed EnableRootSSH and that works fine.
Thanks for the explanation!
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