How to secure Shell in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS

[M.Thomas]

Hi ,
I want to configure secure Shell in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS, I need step by step procedure to do , if anyone knows guide me

[Vipulinux · Accepted solution]

Hi Thomas

SSH comes preinstalled with RHAS 4.0:
To start the services do:

service sshd start

to check if service started do:
service sshd status

You wont be able to ssh to this box using root as root over ssh is denied by default.
To enable root logins edit
vi /etc/sshd/sshd_config and
permit_root_login YES

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Vipul