On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, Rich Shepard wrote: > On the server/workstation and a portable ~/.ssh has 700 perms while the > authorized_keys, known_hosts, and *.pub key files in that directory have 644 > perms; the others are 600.
I've identified the problem and am working on finding the solution. It turns out that on the portable, the ssh_host* keys are empty files. That's why sshd does not start when the system is booted or root tries to start it. My Web searchers discuss using ssh-keygen to create user keys. I just re-generated the keys on the portable using ssh-keygen -t ed25519 and it recreated ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub, and ~/.ssh/known_hosts. But /etc/ssh/ still has private and public key files with 0 bytes. Still looking ... Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug