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toasty_ghosty

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From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-01-12

Posts: 103

[SOLVED]Removing SSH

Hello

After getting my system near perfect I thought I would make it a bit "harder" . What I mean of course is getting IPTables and the like working. One of the things I would like to do, as I thought I never used it, was to remove openSSH. I know it is somewhat of a "door" to a system and therefor I wanted to get rid of it. However I am slightly confused by what all requires it.

I am running KDE4 and when I look at removing it and its dependances I get that kde-agent requires openSSH. I had no idea what kde-agent was so I looked it up and found out it is a "Startup and shutdown scripts for gpg-agent and ssh-agent in KDE".

However I found out in order to use kdepim-libkdepim and kdeutils-kgpg, I need kde-agent which in turn needs openSSH.

It looks as if removing SSH is a no go. Is there a way I can make it so SSHing into this machine isn't possible? Ive looked at the SSH ArchWiki and it just mentions letting people in, but not keeping them out.

Thanks for the help.

Ghosty

Last edited by toasty_ghosty (2010-06-09 11:42:44)

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: [SOLVED]Removing SSH

Don't start the daemon... Just make sure it isn't in your DAEMONS array in rc.conf and it wont be automatically started. If the daemon isn't running, no one can connect to it.

toasty_ghosty

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From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-01-12

Posts: 103

Re: [SOLVED]Removing SSH

And it is not. Awesome. I cannot believe I didn't think of something that simple. Thank a lot.

Sometimes it takes someone else to point out the obvious.

Ghosty.

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