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Rkhunter Installation Published: Jun 27, 2004

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The complete guide to learn how to connect to your server using SSH. Simple to follow instructions with screenshots so anyone can follow along.

Getting started with SSH Tutorial - Connecting to your server with SSH

Secure Shell (SSH), sometimes known as Secure Socket Shell, is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely getting access to a remote computer. It is widely used by network administrators to control Web and other kinds of servers remotely. SSH is actually a suite of three utilities - slogin, ssh, and scp - that are secure versions of the earlier UNIX utilities, rlogin, rsh, and rcp. SSH commands are encrypted and secure in several ways. Both ends of the client/server connection are authenticated using a digital certificate, and passwords are protected by being encrypted. SSH uses RSA public key cryptography for both connection and authentication. Encryption algorithms include Blowfish, DES, and IDEA. IDEA is the default.

The server you are connecting to must be running SSH, and you must be running a secure shell client on your own machine as well, more details on getting a secure shell client are below.

Step 1) Download the SSH client on your local machine, we are assuming you’re using Windows. If not then see other PuTTY download options here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Windows PuTTY Download
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

Step 2) Save the file to your desktop and double click it.

Step 3) You should see a something that looks like this, asking you what server you want to connect to.
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SSH connect

Step 4) Enter your servers IP and click on Open.

Step 5) Enter your account’s username to connect then enter your password.
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SSH login

Step 6) Change to the root user, type: su –

That’s it! You have now logged into your server using SSH.
Now get comfortable with it and learn some shell/SSH commands in the article listed below.

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Comments (15)

  • Gravatar - Chris
    Chris 01:13, August 28, 2004
    You should update this to:<br />
    <br />
    wget http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.1.6.tar.gz
  • Gravatar - mct
    mct 17:40, December 29, 2004
    make that 1.1.9 as of 12/28/04. :)
  • Gravatar - Amr
    Amr 16:53, March 16, 2005
    wget http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.2.1.tar.gz<br />
    <br />
    as of 16 March 2005
  • Gravatar - mjm
    mjm 03:45, May 6, 2005
    updated yet again:<br />
    <br />
    wget http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.2.5.tar.gz<br />
    <br />
    05-05-2005
  • Gravatar - Brad
    Brad 09:44, June 18, 2005
    Make that 1.2.7 as of 6/18/05
  • Gravatar - accyroy
    accyroy 14:57, June 18, 2005
    updated again...<br />
    <br />
    wget http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.2.7.tar.gz<br />
    <br />
  • Gravatar - BoO_SuLtAn
    BoO_SuLtAn 16:16, June 19, 2005
    The Latest Version Is :<br />
    <br />
    http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.2.7.tar.gz<br />
    <br />
    Best Regards"
  • Gravatar - Arif Kanji
    Arif Kanji 09:17, August 17, 2005
    Hi,<br />
    How do u make a scan at (for example) 3am everyday.<br />
    Cheers
  • Gravatar - Miguel Costa
    Miguel Costa 00:33, June 4, 2006
    Hy<br />
    <br />
    New version:)<br />
    <br />
    wget http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.2.8.tar.gz
  • Gravatar - harry
    harry 00:36, August 12, 2006
    Very helpful for level3 issues
  • Gravatar - Chanchal
    Chanchal 02:33, October 2, 2006
    The following binaries to be reported bad while checking Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) servers using rkhunter. Checked 3 servers and confirmed on all.<br />
    <br />
    /bin/dmesg [ BAD ]<br />
    /bin/kill [ BAD ]<br />
    /bin/login [ BAD ]<br />
    /bin/mount [ BAD ]<br />
    <br />
    The package installed is util-linux-2.11y-9.2.legacy
  • Gravatar - Will
    Will 14:24, April 4, 2007
    New version: <br />
    <br />
    wget http://downloads.rootkit.nl/rkhunter-1.2.9.tar.gz
  • Gravatar - Mahdi
    Mahdi 03:47, January 7, 2008
    whats the new version link<br />
    i can not open the downloads.rootkit.nl url :(<br />
    please take te new version download link
  • Gravatar - cdixon311
    cdixon311 00:06, January 13, 2008
    http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rkhunter/rkhunter-1.3.0.tar.gz<br />
    <br />
    It seems there is a latter version out now.<br />
  • Gravatar - Ritesh
    Ritesh 05:39, March 14, 2008
    Error while running rkhunter<br />
    <br />
    rkhunter-1.3.0<br />
    <br />
    /usr/local/bin/rkhunter -c<br />
    Default logfile will be used (/var/log/rkhunter.log).<br />
    The internationalisation directory does not exist: /var/rkhunter/db/i18n

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