Subject: Re: Generating ssh_host_keys?
To: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
From: Todd McDaniel <lazymutt@mediaone.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/18/2001 16:13:31
sshd=YES worked. Thanks!!! Where is this documented?

-Todd


At 10:07 AM +0000 11/17/01, Chris Pinnock wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:28:48AM -0500, Todd McDaniel wrote:
> > I'm back. Somewhere in all my tinkering netatalk started working. Now
> > I'm fighting with sshd. How do you generate the server host keys?
> > I've been trying to find the info on the net, but they all assume
> > you'll be make'ing from scratch. I tried to use ssy-keygen, but it
> > complains about the format.
> >
> > The docs on the NetBSD site don't mention then, so it seems it should
> > generate them on it's own...
>
>Hi Todd,
>
>For 1.5 onwards, if you have "sshd=YES" in your /etc/rc.conf file
>then the host keys should automatically be generated on boot or by
>running "/etc/rc.d/sshd start".
>
>Alternatively, I think you can start key generation with
>	"/etc/rc.d/sshd keygen"
>
>If you need to do it manually, something like:
>	/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f ssh_host_key -N ''
>	/usr/bin/ssh-keygen -d -f ssh_host_dsa_key -N ''
>should do the trick.
>
>ciao,
>--
>Chris