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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:42:20 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Johann Sharizan <johann@broadpark.no>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: OpenSSH -- Make up your mind!
Message-ID:  <20011228203716.N2673-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <20011228163121.4df70a62.johann@broadpark.no>

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Johann Sharizan wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I recently installed the newest port of OpenSSH for security reasons,
> after having manually deleted all traces of the old one.
>
> After the installation the new config files could be found in
> /usr/local/etc. SSHD, however, complained it couldn't find sshd_config in
> /etc/ssh. So I went ahead and moved them all from /usr/local/etc to
> /etc/ssh. But now, SSHD brings me this output, requiring a non-existent
> file:
>
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

Thats because you didn't tell sshd to get the key and config file  from the
new location and sshd tries to get them from the default location.
Read sshd(8) and look at the -f and -h flags. The answer to your problem
is in the man page.



				Fer

>
> OpenSSH did generate all the nessecary keys and config files upon installation;
>
> (16:30) [johann@ninja] [/etc/ssh] > ls
> ssh_config              ssh_host_dsa_key.pub    ssh_host_key.pub
> ssh_host_dsa_key        ssh_host_key            sshd_config
>
> So what does SSHD need an RSA key when it already has a DSA one?
>
> Again, I'm utterly confused.
>
> Regards,
> Johann
>
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