sshd... keys!!

[Lorenzo Facello]

I installed ssh2 on my server.
I configured and generated keys. But when I lunch /usr/local/sbin/sshd
I read :" sshd[10369]: WARNING: Host key pair is not specified, trying to use default 'hostkey'."

[Christian Gebhardt]

HI
do you have an entry:
HostKey
in your sshd-config-file?

Chris

[Steven E. Protter]

Did you follow the attached doc? It works pretty well for me. If you follow the key generation and connect instructions precisely it works.

P

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Lorenzo,

You will need to generate hostkeys before you launch sshd. Try generating them in this way. Go ahead and generate keys for all the versions.

#cd /usr/local/bin

./ssh-keygen -q -b 1024 -t rsa -f /usr/local/etc/openssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -C ''
-N ''
./ssh-keygen -q -b 1024 -t dsa -f /usr/local/etc/openssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -C ''
-N ''
./ssh-keygen -q -b 1024 -t rsa1 -f /usr/local/etc/openssh/ssh_host_key -C '' -N ''

-Sri

[Steve Post]

Did you just install ssh from the depot file,
openssh-3.1p1-sd-11.00.depot?

There is a small bug in the installation. If may have been fixed by now. But you would have problems creating keys. If so, let me know, or look in the forums on the installation problem.
steve