OpenSSH (also known as OpenBSD Secure Shell) is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client-server architecture. 0
Begin by first verifying that you have openssh installed on the remote server:
$ kiss b openssh
$ kiss i openssh
Using busybox’s runsv, create a new managed service for the ssh daemon:
$ ln -s /etc/sv/sshd /var/service
At this point, you can either restart the remote server or manually start the SSH daemon:
$ sv up sshd
From an SSH client, use the following command to connect to the remote SSH server:
$ ssh USERNAME@SERVER
Replace USERNAME with the name of a regular user and SERVER with the hostname or IP address of the SSH remote server. Upon pressing return, you will also be prompted to enter the password of the regular user specified.
Passwordless login to a remove server can be achieved by creating a key pair. From the SSH client, use the following command to generate the key:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Copy the id_rsa.pub file generated from the previous step into the remote server’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with the following command:
$ ssh-copy-id USERNAME@SERVER
Replace USERNAME with the name of a regular user and SERVER with the hostname or IP address of the SSH remote server. Upon pressing return, you will also be prompted to enter the password of the regular user specified.
Verify that the key was copied to the remote server and passwordless login works by entering the following command from the previous section:
$ ssh USERNAME@SERVER
Once passwordless login has been verified, disable password authentication on the remote server:
$ echo "PasswordAuthentication no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
When connecting to an SSH server, there are three different levels of debug modes that can help with troubleshooting issues. Use the “-v” switch when connecting to print the debugging messages:
$ ssh USERNAME@SERVER -v
$ ssh USERNAME@SERVER -vv
$ ssh USERNAME@SERVER -vvv
If you are looking to forward GUI-based applications through an SSH tunnel, refer to the #/wiki/xorg/x11-forwarding article.
You can fix errors such as this one
top error: Error opening terminal: xterm-256color
By running this command in your ssh session
$ export TERM=xterm