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Posts: 75 | Thanked: 11 times | Joined on Feb 2008 @ Bay area, CA // Kampala, Uganda
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Yeah, I had the same problem. More annoyingly, a couple of errors came up every time I used it after reinstalling, due to something in ssh_config. I wanted to just delete my old settings and start anew, but that would require being root, and I don't have any special way of being root installed, I just always ssh root@localhost. I ended up going to R&D mode so I could gainroot, removed the problematic files, rebooted into production mode, and then (cleanly) reinstalled SSH, which is now totally fine, though I had to redo all my keys. It was a stupid process to have to do, which would've been solved by capturing root locally, but whatever, it worked.

@ paulkoen: SSH server allows me to ssh to myself (ssh root@localhost) to get root without doing any of the other tricks to get root. Plus, I don't know, if I ever screwed up my xorg.conf and the display wasn't usable, I suppose I could fix it via ssh from another computer. Might come in handy sometime.

Last edited by phutterman; 2008-03-13 at 23:47. Reason: more to say