Re: OpenSSHd problem.

From: Brett W. McCoy (bmccoy@chapelperilous.net)
Date: 07/30/02 

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:39:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
To: Lee Rich <lee.rich@wlga.gov.uk>

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Lee Rich wrote:

> Afternoon people. I'm wondering if anyone can aid me with a small
> problem I have.. I have just installed OpenSSH2.9p2 (from the RH7.2
> RPM's) and configured the config file to my liking. However I don't have
> any host key files. SSHd won't run unless they are present witin the
> specified directory. Is there a way to generate a host key.. or am I
> missing something here?

ssh-keygen can be used to generate host keys. You need to make sure what
you have in your sshd config matches with the host keys you create.

-- Brett
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