Remote Setup

[Matthew Flaschen]

Charles Yao wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Charles Yao wrote:
>> > Hi Guys,
>> >
>> > Our office has about 20 pcs running different OS's in 3 different
>> > locations,
>> > and I am wondering if there is any way for me to set the administrator
>> > passwords for all of them remotely. What I currently do is go from
>> pc to
>> pc
>> > and make an administrator account and install the software from there.
>> But
>> > as you can see it is quite troublesome for me to do this for every pc.
>>
>> You could do it over ssh (Secure Shell) protocol.
>>
>> Matt Flaschen

> Hi Matt,
> 
> I tried to connecto to one of my Ubuntu machines and the connection was
> refused. Any thing I should do on the other end?

You'll have to install it.  See
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#SSH_Server , for instance.

Matthew Flaschen