* Jacob Stowell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi all, > > I am fairly new to using SSH, and I was wondering if anyone may be able > to help me with a problem. > > satchel[/home/jake]% /etc/init.d/ssh start > Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdDisabling protocol version 2. > Could not load host key ... > HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key ... > # Uncomment if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for > RhostsRSAAuthentication You want "yes" or "no" here ^^^^^ ... > RhostsAuthentication no ... > RSAAuthentication yes
Ok, check that you have /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key and /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key (and corresp. .pub's). You want RSA key for RSAAuthentication. If not, generate them with ssh-keygen -t [dsa,rsa] -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_[rsa,dsa]_key -N "" as root and add HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_[rsa,dsa]_key entries to the config file (if the files are there, just add conffile entries). The error message says it's disabling SSH-2 because it cannot find SSH-2 RSA and/or DSA keys (/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key is for SSH-1). It looks like your client is trying to connect with SSH-2 and is not falling back to SSH-1 when that fails. You can try telling to use SSH-1 (ssh -1 myserver) to check if this is the case. Dima -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration. -- MegaHal
