source: server/other/openssh/openssh-config.xml@ 95079c36

<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>OpenSSH</application></title>

<sect3><title>Config files</title>

<para><filename>/etc/ssh/ssh_config</filename>,
<filename>/etc/ssh/sshd_config </filename></para>
<para>There are no required changes in either of these files.  However
you may wish to view them to make changes for appropriate security to
your system. Configuration information can be found in the man pages for sshd, ssh and ssh-agent</para>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>sshd init.d script</title>

<para>Note that you only want to start the sshd server if you want to be
able to ssh <emphasis>into</emphasis> your machine.  The ssh client
doesn't need this script to be used.  Having said that, if you want to
run the ssh daemon, the sshd init.d script can be created using the following 
commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput><command>cat &gt; /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/sshd

# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans  - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org

source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $rc_functions

case "$1" in
        start)
                echo "Starting SSH Server..."
                loadproc /usr/sbin/sshd
                ;;

        stop)
                echo "Stopping SSH Server..."
                killproc /usr/sbin/sshd
                ;;

        reload)
                echo "Reloading SSH Server..."
                reloadproc /usr/sbin/sshd
                ;;
             
        restart)
                $0 stop
                sleep 1
                $0 start
                ;;

        status)
                statusproc /usr/sbin/sshd
                ;;

        *)
                echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reload|restart|status}"
                exit 1
                ;;
esac

# End $rc_base/init.d/sshd
<command>EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd</command></userinput></screen></para>

<para>Create the symbolic links to this file in the relevant <filename
class="directory">rc.d</filename> directories with the following commands:
<screen><userinput><command>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sshd ../rc0.d/K30sshd &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sshd ../rc1.d/K30sshd &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sshd ../rc2.d/K30sshd &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sshd ../rc3.d/S30sshd &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sshd ../rc4.d/S30sshd &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sshd ../rc5.d/S30sshd &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sshd ../rc6.d/K30sshd</command></userinput></screen></para>

</sect3>

</sect2>