Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 16057
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7/1     Sorry to bring another ssh question to the motd, but I thought
        others might be interested.  So my company doesn't have ssh
        installed, but there *is* a machine I can telnet out of without
        going through the proxy.  I compiled ssh over there, and I can't
        get it to connect to soda.  I checked man pages, and the ssh url
        above, but it still dies.  Here's the command line and result:

        > ssh -a -v -l emarkp http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu
        SSH Version 1.2.27 [sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4], protocol version 1.5.
        Standard version.  Does not use RSAREF.
        host183: ssh_connect: getuid 27243 geteuid 27243 anon 1
        host183: Connecting to http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu [128.32.43.52] port 22.
        host183: connect: Connection timed out
        host183: Trying again...

        Any ideas on how to fix? -emarkp
        \_ ssh on outgoing port 22 on your firewall is blocked,
           as in not open.
           \_ but emarkp was able to get "ssh-1.5-1.2.26" from telnet pt 22?
        \_ woah, they have suns at intel?
           \_ ssssh!  Don't let anyone else know. :)  I don't know how
              long this system has been in place.  --emarkp
              \_ suns are better than intels. and for that matter, so is
                 everything else. but intels are cheap which is good
                 enough for my purposes.
        Any ideas on how to fix? -emarkp
        \_ Hint: try  "telnet http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu 22" first.
        \_ try it again now that the campus network is back up...
           \_ I did.  There wasn't even this much when the network was
              down. --emarkp
           and say hello to mister firewall.
           \_ Actually, I got through.  That is, it said:
              Connected to http://soda.csua.berkeley.edu.
              Escape character is '^]'.
              SSH-1.5-1.2.26
              -- emarkp
                \_ Now remove the setuid root bit from ssh.
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