On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:05:27PM -0600, 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. as root, run this: rm -f /etc/ssh_host_key* ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N '' pay attention to the output (there shouldn't be any from the rm, and only about three lines saying it's making the key and generating p and q from ssh-keygen) If you want the source, get it from the "source" : ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh don't bother with 1.2.16 if you can help it, building ssh is _very_ easy, so go ahead and grab 1.2.27 (ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz). Do these steps and you'll be good to go: rpm -e ssh # remove the 1.2.16 that's there rm -f /etc/ssh* # back these up if you have configured them since # installing the rpm # these steps can be run by any user cd /tmp tar -xzvf ~/ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz cd ssh-1.2.27 ./configure make # this step should be run as root, ie. su root -c 'make install' make install the make install will generate your host keys, and install the daemon in /usr/local/sbin/sshd. You will still need an init script, like this one: #!/bin/sh # copy this to /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd (RedHat et al) # then run /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd relink to set up symlinks case $! in start) echo "Starting Secure Shell service" /usr/local/sbin/sshd ;; stop) echo "Stopping Secure Shell service" killall sshd ;; relink) ln -s ../init.d/sshd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K00sshd 2>/dev/null ln -s ../init.d/sshd /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K00sshd 2>/dev/null ln -s ../init.d/sshd /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K00sshd 2>/dev/null ln -s ../init.d/sshd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90sshd 2>/dev/null ln -s ../init.d/sshd /etc/rc.d/rcS.d/K00sshd 2>/dev/null ln -s ../init.d/sshd /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K00sshd 2>/dev/null ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" ;; esac -- _____________________ _ _ _________________________ Michael Rice |_| Collective |_| http://www.colltech.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_ Technologies _| 8007598888/8019292 pager Consultant [] [] "The Power Of Many Minds" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
