From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 16 06:56:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7921B106566B for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:56:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365188FC13 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAG6uiAa018446 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:56:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:56:47 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Manolis Kiagias Message-ID: <20091116065647.GD11539@thought.org> References: <20091115234930.GA11465@thought.org> <4B00955E.908@otenet.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B00955E.908@otenet.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: no sshd on new server... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:56:52 -0000 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:57:18AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > ok, i have my new server-to-be underway but having problems exec'ing > > /usr/sbin/sshd. i can ssh out to existing computers, but cannot ssh > > or scp stuff in. so my question is: how do i create > > /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ? checking around does no good. > > > > tia for any insights, > > > > gary > > > > > Add: > > sshd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf and then execute: > > /etc/rc.d/sshd start (or reboot your system) > > The keys will be automatically created at first startup of the ssh daemon yup, this did the trick. i had assumed that ths 'sshd_enable=YES' line was there. but rc.conf was all but empty. tx again. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php