Hi Ryan,
Does the hostkey on the server exist? If not, run this as root:
# ssh-keygen2 -P /etc/ssh2/hostkey
That's really odd. The spec file is supposed to generate the hostkey *shrug*.
Let me know if you run into any more problems with the RPM.
-Anne
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:20:11PM -0700, ryan wrote:
> I recently installed the ssh-2.3.0-1.i386.rpm on my machine and it
> installed perfectly and created a passkey, private and public in
> /etc/ssh2/hostkey and /etc/ssh2/hostkey.pub respectively. When I try to
> load sshd2 it quits with the following error messages,
>
> # sshd2 -v
> sshd2: SSH Secure Shell 2.3.0 (non-commercial version) on
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
> debug: Reading private host key from /etc/ssh2/hostkey
> sshd2[1736]: FATAL ERROR: ssh_privkey_read from /etc/ssh2/hostkey
> failed.
> FATAL: ssh_privkey_read from /etc/ssh2/hostkey failed.
>
> The private key file exists where it is looking but for some reaon it
> fails to be read. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ryan Vaughan
>
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