Starting SSH service in Backtrack
Category：Tips | Posted on 2/9/2013 Monday 3:32 pm
Starting SSH service
BackTrack has various services such as Apache, SSH, MySQL, VNC, etc. They are all disabled by default. To start a service such as SSH, you can use the service init scripts. For example, to start the SSH service:
[email protected]:~# sshd-generate # Specific to the SSH service - needed to generate SSH keys [email protected]:~# /etc/init.d/ssh start Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. [email protected]:~# /etc/init.d/ssh stop Stopping OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. [email protected]:~#
When using a ssh server for the first time on Backtrack you will need to generate keys:
[email protected]:~# sshd-generate
To enable a service at boot time, you can use the?update-rc.d?command, for example, having SSH start at boot time:
[email protected]:~# update-rc.d -f ssh defaults Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/ssh ... /etc/rc0.d/K20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh /etc/rc1.d/K20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh /etc/rc6.d/K20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh /etc/rc2.d/S20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh /etc/rc3.d/S20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh /etc/rc4.d/S20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh /etc/rc5.d/S20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh root[email protected]:~#
