Fedora 18 - Start sshd on boot

Question

I've just installed Fedora 18, and trying to configure sshd - I used chkconfig but this is only starting sshd when a user is logged in. How do I change so that sshd starts on system boot?

Solution 1

Try the Fedora 17 method...

systemctl enable sshd.service

This will enable sshd so it starts on the next boot and every subsequent boot, but it won't immediately start up sshd.

At this point you can either reboot (which will start it up) or start it manually using

systemctl start sshd.service

Solution 2

I had the same issue in Fedora 21, I finally zeroed out the Listening Address,ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 and now when they system reboots I am able to SSH without logging into the system first.

Comments

[Admin]

@Christopher yes, thanks. Want to add this as answer?

[Admin]

chkconfig should be forwarded to systemctl and just work. What do you mean by "only starting when a user is logged in"?

[Admin]

@David That's very strange.... Oh! Was the network user controlled? It's possible that the net was only up when someone was logged in.