From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 7:17:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tecdigital.net (tecdigital.tol.itesm.mx [132.254.97.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A59837B407 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 07:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madd@tecdigital.net) Received: (qmail 72794 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 14:17:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Vivi) (madd@10.25.129.187) by 10.25.165.1 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 14:17:22 -0000 Message-ID: <001201c12402$ae6edc40$bb81190a@Vivi> From: "Mario Doria" To: , References: <200108131348.f7DDmUC30721@mail.ipsnetwork.net> Subject: Re: manually generating ssh host/key files Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:15:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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? man ssh-keygen > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message