[gentoo-user] New user trying to get SSH running

[Sean Bossinger]

Good evening,   I'm a new user to the Gentoo distro, and just completed my first install of the OS on a system of mine.  I'm using 1.4 RC4, with a stage 3 tarball install on an x86 system.   When I attempted to fire up sshd, the system is telling me:   Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol version 1.  Could not load host key Disabling protocol version 2.  Could not load host key sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting   So, I know WHAT this is saying... I know WHY this is being said.  But even after extensively reading the manpages for ssh, sshd, and ssh-keygen, I don't see anywhere that tells me how to create the host keys...   I've been a user of SSH on a redhat system for about 9 months; but I gave up my redhat distribution so that I could REALLY learn Linux rather than rely purely on the plug and play.   Any help would be greatly appreciated.   Thank you!   (p.s., If this question has already been answered before, as I'm pretty sure it has, if you'll point me to the archives, I'll gladly look it up myself!)   Sean Bossinger