Re: [Cooker] sshd fails to generate DSA host key

[Vincent Danen]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 05:32 PM, Brent Hasty wrote:

[root@h2o cups]# service sshd restart
Stopping sshd: [ OK ]
Generating SSH2 DSA host key:

It has been sitting hear for about an hour. I have tried re-installing
related packages. I am unable login remotly to this server using ssh in
gnome telnit.

Anyone else experiencing problems like this...

When restarting this service using drakconf, this is what I get back

Stopping sshd:[FAILED]    (because it was not running)
Generating SSH2 DSA host key: /sbin/service: line 148: 6249 Terminated
$debug

How can I regenerate the DSA key so SSH2 will work properly?

I just tried it here by moving my existing DSA keys and restarting the server... it generated the keys just fine.

Can you try doing this on the commandline instead of via drakconf?

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