On Mon Mar 31, 2003 at 03:12:04PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > > 3) Openssh-server wasn't installed. After manually installing with rpm, > > > the server host keys needed to be manually created. > > > > Are you sure? They should be automatically generated the first time the > > server runs (the initscript handles this, not the rpm itself). > > > > Hi Vincent: > I'm sure that the /etc/host_rsa_key wasn't there after the rpm > installation. I had just installed the openssh-server rpm and tried to > connect. On the client side I got an error so I tailed > /var/log/messages. It complained that the host key was not available. > Checking /etc/ confirmed this. > I'll be re-running this installation on a more up-to-date box and will > try to confirm if this was just some glitch with my particular setup.
You need to actually start openssh... installing the rpm doesn't automagically start it after you install the rpm. You have to "service sshd start" and then it will create the keys if they don't exist. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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