Installing sshd in Mandriva [solved]

[Guest penguino]

I have a running Mandriva system that I installed without ssh server. The ssh client works fine, but I can't seem to install the server.

drakconf says openssh can't be installed but doesn't say why not.

 

How can I change my installation so it includes the ssh server?

 

Thanks.

 

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

[lynchmob]

Check your firewall settings/ security levels.

lynchmob

[ianw1974]

Normally you can install this way:

 

urpmi ssh-server

 

it's the same as typing "urpmi openssh-server" but less to type :P

 

Hopefully that will sort it for you. To then start the service do this:

 

service sshd start

 

which will save you a reboot, and then, make sure it's set to start at boot:

 

chkconfig --list sshd

 

if it says "on" against runlevels 3 and 5, then this is OK. If not, then do this:

 

chkconfig sshd on

 

and that will enable it each time you restart your system.

[Guest penguino]

Thanks, everyone for the suggestions.

 

I did not try urpmi initially (of course that worked) because I (silly me) figured that if drakconf refused to install it, then urpmi would also. I assumed that urpmi was the engine under drakconf package installation.

 

I wonder why drakconf failed to install sshd but urpmi succeeded?

 

Anyway, good help, as usual. Thanks.