Linux

Hello,

I have Fedora Linux core 3.0 installed on my computer and I want to let it allow SSH or Telnet connections so that I can access my files when I'm not home.
Who can help me with doing that?

Thank you,

If ssh is not already installed, download the source or the rpm and install it. You can get those here. Then go through the documentation. You can get the man pages here. You can also get a howto on ssh here.

If you still have questions after going through all this, we are always there to help.

Thanks man, I'll try it.

SSH is by default installed and started automatically with Fedora Core. But bear in mind that by default there is a firewall configured which blocks external access. You'll need to open that port if you want to allow external access.

I do it manually by editing the firewall rules created with the iptables command line program according to my needs, and update the rules cache with iptables-save so that the next time the firewall rules are loaded from cache the changes will then take effect. You should probably add a rule at the top of the INPUT chain to only allow the netblock of your remote host to access your SSH server. After all, opening the SSH port to everyone on the Net is never a good idea.