On Apr 8, 2005 10:57 AM, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What do you get for: > $ rpm -qa | grep openssh This time I got: openssh-3.9p1-8.0.1 openssh-askpass-3.9p1-8.0.1 openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.0.1 openssh-server-3.9p1-8.0.1 openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-8.0.1 As the $ suggested, I did it as user, not root. > > If you're not currently using ssh you could turn it off until such time > as you're going to start using it: > # service sshd stop > # chkconfig sshd off OK, I stopped ssh for now. When I did service sshd stop I got output, but when I did chkconfig sshd off I got none. Is this supposed to return any output? Paul, and everybody else, thank you for helping me. Now that ssh is off for the time being, I'm not so worried and I'll learn to secure it with iptables before I enable it. Dotan Cohen http://EnglishLirics.com/ http://Song-Lyriks.com/