On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:20:34AM -0600, John Heim wrote:
I got it to work. Part of the problem was that I forgot abut having to press tab before typing in the cheat code. But another thing I was doing wrong is being too quick to try to log in. The ssh daemon doesn't start until about 5 seconds after the tone. Even after I was entering the cheat code correctly, I ran both an ssh command and an nmap before the daemon started.
I actually verified this... I can type 'ssh hostname', listen to it say "connection refused", and run nmap all in the time between the tone and when the daemon starts. Welll, I'm currently testing on an old Dell 280. So that might be part of the problem too.
Generation of an ssh host key takes a few seconds on current hardware and even more on older hardware. The daemon will not start before this process has finished.
Greetings Marc