If you’re running Solaris 8 or 9 and an upgrade results in broken SSH X11 forwarding, the problem may be Sun’s socfs bug. The symptom will be SSH’s failure to set the $DISPLAY variable and an error in your system log looking something like this: Jun 3 09:40:24 servername sshd[26432]: [ID 800057 auth.error] error: Failed [...]
For one reason or another RHEL does not disallow incoming ssh connections as root. This is, of course a glaring security problem which should be addressed for all systems that allow ssh connections to be made from any but the most restricted networks. The best practice, of course, would be to make the initial ssh [...]
Many system 5 UNIX variants use scripts in the /etc/rcN.d/ directories to control which services should be started in the various runlevels. If, for instance, you wanted the secure shell daemon to run in runlevel 4, you would put a script named something like “S55sshd” in “/etc/rc4.d”. This script would usually accept the “start” “stop” [...]
