From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 12:34:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12117154E1 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id VAA06964 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:34:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA97351 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:52:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Openssh help Date: 24 Nov 1999 20:51:59 +0100 Message-ID: <81hfkv$2v1p$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher T. Griffiths wrote: > I am currently testing openssh and I have run into a snag. When I go to > start sshd I get the following error: > > error: Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key: No such file > or directory Well, that sounds pretty self-explanatory. > I have tried using ssh-keygen to create this file but no luck. It just > throws an error of 0 at me. # ssh-keygen -N "" -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key That ought to work. At least that's what the port/package now use to create a ssh_host_key on a virgin system. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message