From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 12:32:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B303B37B439 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBRKWBN13595; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:32:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:32:11 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Johann Sharizan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSH -- Make up your mind! In-Reply-To: <20011227212259.70a6a758.johann@broadpark.no> Message-ID: <20011227153102.F11529-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Johann Sharizan wrote: > Hi. > > I recently installed the newest port of OpenSSH for security reasons, > after having manually deleted all traces of the old one. > > After the installation the new config files could be found in > /usr/local/etc. SSHD, however, complained it couldn't find sshd_config in > /etc/ssh. So I went ahead and moved them all from /usr/local/etc to /etc/ssh. But now, SSHD brings me this output, requiring a non-existent file: > > Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key > > I'm utterly confused. OpenSSH (and SSH in general) requires you to generate keys before you can run the server. Normally, FreeBSD does this the first time it boots up. Have a look at the ssh-keygen command and /etc/rc.network for an example. Joe > > Regards, > Johann > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message