UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

In our unix environment I'm not able to locate where ssh is located.

can any one guide me in finding the location of this tool.

I am not sure if you are looking for ssh path. If yes, it should be available under /usr/bin by default. What operating system are you working on? You can also do a find using the syntax

find / -name ssh

This would tell you if ssh is available on that machine or not.

the daemon for ssh is sshd, if there is a process sshd running then ssh is enabled. try the command ssh and if installed you will get the options or else it will give command not found.

Try these commands:

1. type ssh (type in the word type )
2. whereis ssh

Should give you the installation location.

Hope this helps,

Praveen Indramohan

I'm using ksh.

on typing whereis ssh..it shows ssh:

I ran into this as a new admin on HP-UX 11i. I'm not sure if this pertains to your case or not. SSH was installed by my predecesor in the /opt/ssh directory as it does not come with HP-UX by default. The binary sshd was located in /opt/ssh/bin. I didnt want to invoke the binary directly. I had a hard time finding the script to launch it because I kept looking for ssh(d). The script was in /sbin/init.d with the other scripts to start services, but it was named secsh (secure shell).