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Date:      Sat, 5 Aug 2000 22:54:17 -0700
From:      "Bennett Hui" <bhui@mail.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   can't start sshd
Message-ID:  <NDBBKCNFGLGFDJGFGEECOEJOCCAA.bhui@mail.com>

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I just installed FreeBSD 4.1 last night on an Intel Processor.  I loaded in
the OpenSSH port that is contained in the FreeBSD CD.  I've created an RSA
host key and a DSA host key called ssh_host_key and ssh_host_dsa_key,
respectively in the /etc/ssh/ directory.

When I try to run sshd, I get the following errors:

error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key: Bad file descriptor
Disabling protocol version 1
error: Could not load DSA host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 2
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.


I thought I was doing something wrong with generating the keys, so I
installed the latest port of SSH from the FreeBSD website (OpenSSH 2.1.1)
and I saw the install of that create the keys using the commands:

ssh-keygen -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
ssh-keygen -d -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

After the install was complete, i tried running sshd again, but it produced
the exact same errors as I mentioned above.

What's going wrong?

Bennett Hui
bhui@mail.com



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