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Re: "Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key"
Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 16:20:35 +0100 on Sunday, February 6, 2011:
> On Feb 6 09:49, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 11:09:57 +0100 on Sunday, February 6, 2011:
> > > sshd tries to load this key by default, but it's missing in your setup,
> > > that's why you get a warning from sshd.
> > >
> > > Re-run the latest ssh-host-config script from the openssh-5.8p1
> > > package. You'll see a line like
> > >
> > > *** Info: Generating /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
> > >
> > I ran it on 3 new, fresh, blank installs and in all cases it only
> > generated the usual 3-key pairs:
> > ssh_host_key
> > ssh_host_rsa_key
> > ssh_host_dsa_key
> >
> > So perhaps the problem is that ssh-host-config is not generating the
> > new key.
> > By the way, I was using 5.7p1-1 which was up to date as of late last
> > week.
>
> Maybe that's why I explicitely wrote to use "the latest ssh-host-config
> script from the openssh-5.8p1 package"...
Gotya! Thanks -- I hadn't realized it was updated in the last couple
of days. That worked...
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