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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2001 23:24:34 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>
To:        "Jonathan D. Dunfee" <jdunfee@home.com>
Cc:        Dan Harnett <danh@wzrd.com>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Guyomarch?= <rguyom@pobox.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sshd - @    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!   @
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103052311510.1049-100000@littleblue.spotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <15011.45857.351854.898433@C126508-B.rchdsn1.tx.home.com>

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Jonathan D. Dunfee wrote:

>To expound on what Dan mentioned, the portable version of OpenSSH
>places (and references) configuration files according to the
>"--sysconfdir=" option that you give to the configure script. The
>default is ${prefix}/etc, which actually gives /usr/local/etc/ if
>'--prefix=' hasn't been set.

Christoph -

You didn't say which ssh distribution you installed (SSH
Communications or OpenSSH).  OpenSSH won't overwrite existing
hostkeys, and I'd be surprised if the SSH Communications package did.

So ... if you're using OpenSSH, then my guess is that you configured
it with defaults -- and got what Jonathan describes above, which means
it doesn't know where your original keys are.  Copy them from /etc/ssh
to /usr/local/etc, and you'll be back in business.  Alternatively,
rebuild it using './configure --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh'.

Hope this helps -d

- -- 
David Talkington
Prairienet
dtalk@prairienet.org
217-244-1962

PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc




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