Can't install new SSH tools
 

It looks like the openssh-common package needed to install the latest openssh server and client to OS2008 is missing from the Extras repository. Anybody else had problems installing the latest OpenSSH stuff?

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Yes, same here. Removed and reinstalled to work around.

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Thanks for the hint! Followed your advice and it works now!

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I am intrigued.. what are people using an ssh server on the device for?

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Yeah, I had the same problem. More annoyingly, a couple of errors came up every time I used it after reinstalling, due to something in ssh_config. I wanted to just delete my old settings and start anew, but that would require being root, and I don't have any special way of being root installed, I just always ssh root@localhost. I ended up going to R&D mode so I could gainroot, removed the problematic files, rebooted into production mode, and then (cleanly) reinstalled SSH, which is now totally fine, though I had to redo all my keys. It was a stupid process to have to do, which would've been solved by capturing root locally, but whatever, it worked.

@ paulkoen: SSH server allows me to ssh to myself (ssh root@localhost) to get root without doing any of the other tricks to get root. Plus, I don't know, if I ever screwed up my xorg.conf and the display wasn't usable, I suppose I could fix it via ssh from another computer. Might come in handy sometime.

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Micro management for my home Linux box and IRC.

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It provides me access to root if I mess up sudo, I can use my computer keyboard for console applications & pluthon requires it ;)

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-Being able to ssh in to type commands more quickly.
-Being able to scp or sftp things onto the tablet.
-sshfs. 'nough said.

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Hello!I've the same problem,when using the new version,it gives me a few errors,something with lines in ssh_config...I've uninstaled a few times in red pill mode,but I cannot delete the folder /ssh located in /etc ...I was trying using emelfm2 ,but doesn't allow me...
Can somebody please tell me how can I delete /etc/ssh folder?
Tnx a lot and sorry for my bad English!
Best Regards

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I'm always unccomfortable answering these type of questions because I really don't have a full knowledge of linux and afraid my solution could destroy something. ***Please wait a bit to see if others yell at me for suggesting the following:

I noticed the same error upon upgrading ssh, which I currently only use to gain root access...

ssh -l root localhost

Once logged in I just used "rm /etc/ssh/ssh_config" to end annoying error message. I'm not the kind of person who'd look to see if the config file in question contains anything important, but you might want to be :)

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Tnx a lot ,I'll wait ,maybe someone can tell me how to remove the whole directory /ssh from /etc , and to make after that a clean install of openssh...
Cheers

Re: Can't install new SSH tools
 

I had this same exact problem last night. IIRC all I ended up doing was firing up xterm as root and then doing an: apt-get upgrade (or) apt-get upgrade openssh-common. I think I did the latter and it successfully upgraded the server and client to the new version.