i recommend looking at the manual page for ssh. there are also some faqs at http://www.ssh.org. it is well documented and should address all your /etc/ssh* ~/.ssh/ issues. "T. Weston Sewell" wrote: > I've been trying to get sshd (the daemon not the client) working on my > system but I'm having trouble with the keygen. I run keygen and when it > asks me what file to save the key in I tell it /etc/ssh_host_key (right?), > even though the default is $HOME/.ssh/identity. But when I try to start > sshd it tells me Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key. Check path > and permissions. In desperation I even tried chmod a+r on the file but > still the same prob. I would like to get a look at the source so I'd know > what kind of error causes this problem, other than the obvious, but of > course I only have the bin rpm for it. Anybody have this working or know > what I can try? The rpm I'm using is ssh-1.2.16-1us.i386.rpm, and the > client from that package works fine :) TIA. > > weston > > -- > T. Weston Sewell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- tom carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED] professional systems wrangler --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
