[gabriel]

Hi all ! 
Firstly many thanks to the irix.cc team for this great website ! 


I'm a newcommer in the happy world of SGI stuff owner. I have an Octane,  and I want to install an ssh server on it. I have downloaded and install the following package from the current branch of nekoware localized here : http://fr.irisware.net 
-neko_openssh-6.2p1.tardist
-neko_openssl-0.9.8x.tardist
And I install it with the tardist program from SGI. 

But when I want to start or restart the service, I have the following error message :

Code:

# /etc/init.d/neko_sshd start

Privilege separation user sshd does not exist

I've tried the solution explain here : https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Setup_neko_sshd but i don't know how to check the second step  :s

Somone have a solution for me please ? 

Thnak you 

[jpstewart]

Exactly which parts are you having trouble with?  The "second step" in the referenced article has three footnotes which give slightly more detail at the bottom of the same page.  If those footnotes still aren't enough information (I have no idea how much IRIX or other Unix experience you have), then you might find SGI's "Personal System Administration Guide" helpful.  Chapter 4, in particular, deals with managing users and groups.

The guide can be found on any mirror of techpubs, for example the one jan-jaap runs at https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/065...index.html

[gabriel]

 The "second step" in the referenced article has three footnotes which give slightly more detail at the bottom of the same page. 

Oops, indeed I didn't see it  :blush: I will try it on the next week end. 

I have some experience with other unix systems (Mac OSX and a little bit of Solaris) and linux. Thank you for the link to the techpub, it will be helpful.

[eudatux23]

Hm, normally the user called "sshd" should be created automatically if I remember right. If not, try adding a user with that name to the system. You can set the shell of this user to /bin/false, so that it can't be misused to login to your machine.

By the way, the mirror fr.irisware.net is run by me, cool to see it being used

Greetings from Germany

[gabriel]

Ok, thanks for the infos, I will retry on the next weekend  

And thanks for the miror ! 

Greetings from France 

[Origin3k]

This mini Setup_neko_sshd howto was from me some 10-15 years ago. Funny to see that its still around but i can see that it doesnt contain enough information if you start from scratch with IRIX in general.

The neko_(open?)sshd tardist was packaged by Pete in the early days. I cant remember if there was a Installation script within the tardist or not. I also expect that your system show a different behavior of you have the IRIX version of openssh installed before.

Regards
Joerg