Setting up an SSH server - how do I get keys?

[notfred]

getting this message:

Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.


What do I use for host keys?

 

[geoff2k]

Is the issue that those files don't exist, or that they can't be accessed by the user under whom sshd is running?

 

[AT]

Originally posted by: notfred
getting this message:

Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.


What do I use for host keys?

You create them. Ssh-keygen is the magic word.

 

[Sunner]

The sshd startscript for many OS's will do this automatically for you if you just run it with a start argument.