From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 6:39:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ipsnetwork.net (mail.ipsnetwork.net [209.202.83.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6DD37B40B for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nvidican@ipsnetwork.net) Received: (from apache@localhost) by mail.ipsnetwork.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7DDmUC30721; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:48:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nvidican@ipsnetwork.net) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:48:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200108131348.f7DDmUC30721@mail.ipsnetwork.net> From: "Nathan Vidican" To: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: nathan@vidican.com Subject: manually generating ssh host/key files X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.24 X-IPAddress: 216.94.6.26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How does one manually create these files: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key sshd asks for them, then craps out because they're not there. A reboot usually forces them to be created upon startup; but in this particular system's case a reboot is not warranted, (and really would kill the `uptime-o-meter`), so I'd like to create them by entering the commands to create the files as the system would during startup. To further complicate things, the system is running a 4.1-STABLE snapshot, with various portions of 4.3-RELEASE; so I'm not even sure if a reboot will get ssh to work. In short; just want to make sshd work from a machine without needing to reboot to create cert files... need to know how? -- Nathan Vidican Nathan@Vidican.com http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message