Configuring SSH on Your Target Machine

To ensure that SSH is configured properly to work with RSE, do the following:

1	Make sure that SSH is enabled on the target machine.

SSH is not enabled by default on a hardened SLES11 SP3 VM.

a	In a terminal window on the target machine, log in as root.

b	Start SSH.

service sshd start

2	For hardened SSH servers, change or add configure parameters.

Default values for a hardened SSH server (sshd) may be different than on other non hardened servers. Change the SSH configuration file to contain the following configuration parameters.

a	Change to the location for the configuration file. For SUSE the configuration file is located at: /etc/ssh/sshd_config

b	Add or change to the following values:

MaxSessions 20

AllowTcpForwarding yes