Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:52:13 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes in OpenSSH on FreeBSd Message-ID: <200006292052.e5TKqDn08850@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:05:55 EDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20000629140433.00bfbd60@64.20.73.233>
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> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:05:55 -0400
> From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>
> With the new support for SSH2 in OpenSSH, we noticed the error
> message about DSA (ie: reverting to protocol version 1 due to the
> absense of ssh_host_dsa_key or whatever). The manpages don't appear
> to address just how we're supposed to GET that key there to begin
> with. ssh-keygen doesn't have an option for DSA keys.
Could you please wrap your lines at <78 characters!
I think you may have a conflict between the old ssh/openssh ports in
/usr/local/man and the new stuff in /usr/man. My man pages are pretty
clear that you use the -d option on ssh-keygen to make a DSA key.
DESCRIPTION
ssh-keygen generates and manages authentication keys for ssh(1). ssh-
keygen defaults to generating an RSA key for use by protocols 1.3 and
1.5; specifying the -d flag will create a DSA key instead for use by pro-
tocol 2.0.
% ssh-keygen -d -P "" -f ssh_host_dsa_key
did the trick for me.
The residue from prior installations of ssh1, ssh2, or openssh can
cause great confusion.
I think UPDATING might need a note that you should delete any of those
packages prior to an installworld.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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