Bug 12614

Summary:	ssh-server not installed by default
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Drew Edwards <drew>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	openssh-6.2p2-3.mga4.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	output from iptables --list

Description Drew Edwards 2014-02-05 18:32:26 CET

Description of problem:

I have two machines with fresh installs of mageia 4.  Both configured via drakfirewall to allow ssh access, but I get this message when attempting to connect:

ssh: connect to host deepthought.localdomain port 22: Connection refused

Attaching output from iptables --list from one of the 2 machines.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

drakx-net-2.12-1.mga4.src.rpm


How reproducible:

Configure firewall in drakfirewall to allow ssh access.  Then try to ssh to machine and observe.



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Drew Edwards 2014-02-05 18:34:29 CET

Created attachment 4941 [details]
output from iptables --list

output from iptables --list

Comment 2 Drew Edwards 2014-02-05 18:44:56 CET

Just to confirm that the machine is accessible otherwise:

ping deepthought.localdomain
PING deepthought.localdomain (192.168.1.149) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from deepthought.localdomain (192.168.1.149): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.37 ms
64 bytes from deepthought.localdomain (192.168.1.149): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=5.13 ms
64 bytes from deepthought.localdomain (192.168.1.149): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=5.05 ms
^C
--- deepthought.localdomain ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.058/5.188/5.370/0.144 ms


Also, I have NFS mounts on that machine that I can access without issue.

Not sure if it is significant, but on both machines I de-selected 'Use interactive firewall' in the configuration gui.

Comment 3 Drew Edwards 2014-02-06 22:52:55 CET

My initial impressions were completely wrong, I did more digging to try to figure this out.  Thus the changed summary wording.

openssh-server is not installed by default apparently.  I checked four machines with mageia 4 installed via x86_64 DVD, openssh-server was not installed on any of them.  I have never before had to explicitly install this before on prior versions of Mageia (1-3).  Also, the firewall specifically allowed accepting ssh connections even though it was not even installed.  It should be installed by default as with previous versions of Mageia or noted in release notes.

I don't know what package this should be reported against, I changed it from the firewall gui to openssh-server, but I'm sure that is not correct either. At least it identifies the missing package.

Hardware: All => x86_64
Summary: drakfirewall not correctly allowing ssh when selected => ssh-server not installed by default
Source RPM: drakx-net-2.12-1.mga4.src.rpm => openssh-6.2p2-3.mga4.src.rpm

Comment 4 Remco Rijnders 2014-02-07 10:41:14 CET

Hi Drew. Thank you for the report, and glad to hear you resolved the issue yourself.

Please note that the ssh server is not part of the regular 'default' install, also not in earlier Mageia releases.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID