Installing SSH

OpenSSH comes with most Linux installations. As an educational institution, UVa also has obtained for no charge the ssh.com implementation. If you don't have ssh configured, ITC recommends you install our ssh.com ssh rpm for version 3. This supports ssh version 2 (ssh2).

If you have OpenSSH installed, and you want to replace it with the ITC ssh rpm, you should remove OpenSSH, then apply the rpm described below.

If you are running RedHat Linux 7.1 or later, you're running the 2.4 kernel. Earlier releases of RedHat used the 2.2 kernel. The package to install for 2.2 is ssh-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm -- the instructions below reference a later release, but the same instructions apply to all of our ssh-3.x rpms. If you're running the 2.4 kernel, use the latest version you find in the directory (it may have been updated since this web page was last updated).

Note: You should execute the following instructions as "root." The # at the beginning of the command lines is the bash prompt.

Mount the filesystem containing the rpms.

Uninstall OpenSSH

Install the package

You are finished installing the ssh clients. The installation does not start the ssh daemon. Either reboot or run the command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start

to start the daemon.

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