Hello,
Yes I asked this message recently. The fix that I was advised of was to get
the latest snapshot souce of openssh, compile it and move the resulting
primes file into the /etc/ssh directory.
I have not encountered the the error message since I carried this out.
Chris Vaughan
Communications Administrator
Department of Information Technology & Management NSW
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 8 December 2000 5:26 AM
To: Noam Sturmwind
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /etc/ssh/primes ?
> I believe someone else mentioned this recently, but either there wasn't a
> reply or I managed to delete the reply email (I did accidentally delete a
> few before reading -- sorry if this is a repeat question!)
>
> Since I've upgraded to OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 (mandrake openssh-2.3.0-p1-7.3mdk
> package) I've been receiving these warning messages through syslog every
> time someone connects (before the authentication):
>
> sshd[22064]: WARNING: no primes in /etc/ssh/primes, using old prime
>
> I'm a bit concerned; depending on what primes are used for, would this
> have an impact on security? I've looked through old ssh installs and
> haven't found a primes file, so I'm wondering if this is a new feature?
I have not read any message about this topic before.
I have also started to get these messages, yet nothing has changed in my
OpenSSH setup.
Using ...
openssh-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk
openssh-askpass-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk
openssh-clients-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk
openssh-server-2.3.0p1-7.1mdk
I have the same on two Mandrake systems (7.1), yet the second one has
not been showing the syslog messages.
Thanks... Dan.
