Paul Howarth wrote:Does it count if I do it locally? I mean on the machine itself? I'm at home now, it's early morning here - I think you're in the UK, no? Anyhow, I was able to ssh to my external IP on the machine itself. I'll give it a try when I get to work, which will be in a few hours. One other question - does it make a difference if I'm logged in as root or user on the remote machine? Excuse me if this is too obvious...| On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 00:59 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: || I got sftp working, today. I have two questions I can't seem || to answer: 1) I first got it going by using the command line || in a terminal window. For another reason, I happened to be in || root. I connected and was able to log in after clicking past || the warning message about the unknown key and putting in my || username and password. Later on, I discovered how to do this || with gftp, also from root. Later on, when I tried to do this || with my username, I couldn't get in, getting a message that || the key couldn't be identified or something - so, my first || question is, is it a good idea to be logging in as root, and || if not, how do get past the warning? |Can you ssh in as the regular user?
$ ssh 66.225.207.87
Paul.
Ok - it's what I suspected, and perhaps as you suspected. I have to log in from the same user. If I su in Bash to root, and try to log in to my user name on the remote computer, it fails. If I open a Bash terminal as user and try to log in as user, it works. Thanks for your help!
-- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
