Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:15:33 PDT From: "Ron Smith" <ronnetron@hotmail.com> To: nicks@albury.net.au Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSH Message-ID: <20000711011533.8613.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Yep! That did the trick. Thanks Nick, R.S. >From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> >To: Ron Smith <ronnetron@hotmail.com> >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
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