Sounds like you have an operating system with a broken random number generator.
Someone is going to say "but it is so hard in VMs". Yes it is hard if the vendors do a poor job of handling it. If they do a good job, it is easy. Anyways, Linux discussions are off-topic for OpenBSD mailing lists. Christopher Johns <[email protected]> wrote: > Good Evening, > > Recently it has been brought to my attention that we may have several Linux > hosts that may have the same problem ssh-rsa key pairs. > > Is it possible if I use a server template to create Linux servers, for > OpenSSH to create the same host keys in /etc/ssh for the servers created by > my template? > > Also, how does OpenSSH create the key pairs, by some random process called > when OpenSSH is installed or when the new server is booted for the first > time? > > Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon. > > Regards, > > Chris Johns > UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator

