From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 10 18:15:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law-f31.hotmail.com [209.185.131.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD10837BA60 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:15:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ronnetron@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 8614 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jul 2000 01:15:33 -0000 Message-ID: <20000711011533.8613.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 63.203.116.218 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:15:33 PDT X-Originating-IP: [63.203.116.218] From: "Ron Smith" To: nicks@albury.net.au Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:15:33 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yep! That did the trick. Thanks Nick, R.S. >From: Nick Slager >To: Ron Smith >CC: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: OpenSSH >Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:53:41 +1000 > >Thus spake Ron Smith (ronnetron@hotmail.com): > > > This is probably a simple problem. I'm setting up 'sshd' on a FreeBSD > > 4.0-RELEASE box, but I can't start '/usr/sbin/sshd'. I get the following > > error message: > > > > error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key: No such file or > > directory > >You need to generate an RSA host key for the box. Something like: > >/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key > >as root should do the trick. If you have ssh_enable set to "YES" in >/etc/rc.conf, the key will be generated automatically on reboot if >it doesn't exist. > >Regards, > > >Nick. > >-- > From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): > "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message