How to stop SSHD process from running???

[Guest_imported]

Hi,
How to i stop the SSHD from running. I try /use/sbin/sshd stop and i get an error saying that there is an extra arguement.

The reason i want to do this is because why have it running if no one is suppossed to be ssh-ing into the server.

I dont want to remove ssh, i just want to have the ability to stop and start it.

Thanks as always



Adam

 

[marsd]

pidof sshd | xargs kill -kill
or ps -aux | grep sshd | awk ' {print $2} ' | xargs kill -kill 2 > /dev/null

This will not address the problem of having it start
when called from the sshd rc.script by init.
Depending on your distribution there should be a systems
managment tool to turn ssh off.
Yast,chkconfig, etc...

If not /etc/rc.d (or wherever your distro keeps the rc
scripts) should contain all the rc symlinks to the rc
scripts for each runlevel. Just remove all symlinks
pointing to ssh (S18sshd K12sshd: example).

Good Luck

 

[GoldenEternity]

Try 'killall sshd'

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

On redhat and mandrake you can disable it from starting automatically by doing (as root) :

/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 sshd off

To start / stop, etc., manually just do:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart (stop and start)
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd reload

As marsd says, if you are using another distro it could be somewhat different.

Hope this helps