--- Michael D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-12-28 02:40): > I updated ssh and some other packages from unstable today, and when it > installed, and also when my machine boots, I get the message: > > Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 53: > Deprecated option Checkmail > Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key > > and indeed when I try to use the putty ssh client from Windows to log into > the machine, I ask for ssh2 but it falls back to ssh1. > > To get rid of the first message I commented off this line in > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: > > CheckMail no > changed to > #CheckMail no > > and added a second line for the ssh2 host key. I started with: > > HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key > > and changed it to: > > HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key > HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > > If I only use ssh_host_dsa_key, then ssh1 is disabled. I would prefer to > only use ssh2, but I think there is only an ssh1 client available for > classic Mac OS (NiftyTelnet SSH) > > I have debian powerpc unstable installed on my Macintosh 8500.
I had the same problem when I built ssh 3.0 packages on my potato machine. I had a look at the postinst script, and it checks to see if /etc/ssh/sshd_config exists and if it doesn't, it puts one there. If it does exist, it just does nothing, which invariably means you get left with an old version of sshd_config. My fix (since I haven't customised my sshd_conifg at all), was to just move that to sshd_config.old and reinstall the ssh package. This put the correct ssh2 version of the config file in its place, and all worked fine after that. Hope that helps Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
