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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:15:03 -0500
From:      "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net>
To:        <nathan@vidican.com>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: manually generating ssh host/key files
Message-ID:  <001201c12402$ae6edc40$bb81190a@Vivi>
References:  <200108131348.f7DDmUC30721@mail.ipsnetwork.net>

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> 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/
> 
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