On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Weihong Cui wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Two questions to ask. I have searched the man page for both sshd
> and ssh-keygen, but could not find the answers. I am running
> OpenSSH_2.2.0p1 with Solaris 7.
>
> 1. What is the correct way to create the ./etc/ssh_host_key and
> ./etc/ssh_host_key.pub? From the man page, it says that they could
> be created by ssh-keygen, but I did not get the answer from the man
> page.  2. How can I give an empty passphrase from the command line
> when I create the keys?

The easiest way is by using "make host-key" - this will make both
RSA and DSA host keys.

For more details - see the INSTALL file.

-d

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