On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:15:20PM +0000, bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
My web site hosting company have just changed from Telnet to SSH.
I am unable to establish a connection and I'm not sure quite what I'm supposed to do at my end.
I'm running Debian Potato and have installed SSH. Do I need to do anything else in order to use it? I have looked at the man page but, as always, I don't understand it.
SSH appears to connect to the host but exits with 'secure connection refused'.
This message usually means that they haven't actually got ssh turned on.
Try:
telnet your.hosting.address.com 22
If it fails to connect, then ssh isn't running on the host.
If it connects, then you have a ssh problem.
try running:
ssh -v your.hosting.address.com
which should give you a debugging dump.
Setting up ssh to give secure connections without needing to enter a password is very easy, but *absurdly* poorly documented, even in the SSH O'reilly book. Let me know if you need any more help - I've spent many frustrating hours battling with this program!