Setting up SSH on Linux with OpenVPN

[9Lt4bwuxNkXP 0]

I am trying to use AirVPN to SSH into a computer. How do I do this?

I have tried the .sh file I got from the SSH tutorial, but when I try to connect to the computer running it, I can never log in (permission denied).

Trying to use OpenVPN as root with the .ovpn file caused errors about not being able to connect.

[cm0s 118]

good to meet ya, yer first post

 

aaahhhhh the ssh joyz, i still get them myself

 

easiest way to get help with your ssh is post up some logs

use verbose blur out anything don't want others to read

or copy paste and use 'xxxxx' sumthin like that

 

here's a link to help with troubleshooting

but back to your question first it could literally be a number of things

why the logs will help so can at least narrow it down

 

for myself a lot of the times yeah it was permissions and i had my permissions set wrong

another time i forgot i had my firewall to allow only xyz ip addy and that was on my own

network, i literally spent a few hours 'troubleshooting' my own security i set in place

 

tbh what i basically did when starting out on ssh was dial into the box next to me and just kept tweaken it

till i got the security settings i liked and the configs i liked

 

one time i forgot to turn ssh on on the other box so can be many things

sometimes it'd work for me other times not you can copy id and it's automagical

 

anyway here's a link to help in the meantime:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Configuring

 

cheerz

[9Lt4bwuxNkXP 0]

@cm0s

 

I realized I was doing something wrong, and now I realize I probably should run the sh file on the target PC (one I want to connect to with SSH) and the ovpn file on the PC I am trying to connect with (the 'client'). Or maybe the other way around? Either way, I still get connection problems.

 

When running the ovpn file, I get "TCP: connect to [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:1412 failed" on both client and target.

 

Using the sh file on the client machine I get prompted for sshtunnel@[target's AirVPN IP address]'s password, and on the target machine I get "ssh: connect to host [target's AirVPN IP address] port 22: No route to host"

 

The ssh daemon is turned on for the target, but not the client.

[dr_kristau 4]

anyway here's a link to help in the meantime:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Configuring

 

cheerz

 

Does this mean we need an SSH server and not just the client to get the AirVPN ovpn file to run? I'm still getting the "127.0.0.1:1412 failed" error when I run it. Thanks!