When I try to connect to my computer from work with SSH I get permission denied even though I am typing the right user name and password. I have a belkin router and I have opened and forwarded port 22 (ssh) to my computer at home. I was wondering if anyone had had a similar problem before. Thank you for your help.

Are youy trying to log in as root? I don't think ssh allows that by default.

I have tried loggin in with other accounts as well. It still doesn't work. It tells me Permission denied. Here is how I am trying to connect: ssh -I username host_name_ip Thanks for helping me out Kevin

ssh -l <login name> <ip here> ? Not sure what the -I switch is, try man shh ?

I should really check my typos before submitting.. man ssh

Are you sure you don't have a firewall installed? Enter "ntsysv" (or "redhat-config-services" for a gui version) at a command prompt, and see if iptables is checked. Enter "lokkit" (or "redhat-config-securitylevel" for a gui version) and "customize", then check "ssh" to allow this port. Reboot or restart the service manually. I think SSH allows root by default. I think it's telnet that doesn't. Good luck.

the first time you connected did it ask you for if you accepted an rsa key fingerpring in order to connect you have to accept it if you didnt i dont know how to fix it if i recall its one of thees three /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key dont hold me to this but if you deletethe first two one your system will generate a defualt key on its own later but when you connect to them it should prompt you again if you want to accept been a while not sure could try google and rsa keys...