Problem running sshd after successful instalation

Hi Gurus, I am installed openssh on RS6000 running AIX4.3.3 with ML 8
I am having problems running the server and the following errors when running sshd
Couldn't load host key: /usr/local/etc
Couldn't load host key: /ssh-host_key
Couldn't load host key: /ssh-host_rsa_key
Couldn't load host key: /ssh-host_dsa_key
sshd: no host keys available ---
exiting


the client side works ie I can connect to other machines but cannt connect to as server.


Your help would be appreciated

 

[Gloups]

You should initialize sshd first.

If you have it, submit /etc/rc.ssh whith the init option to generate your host keys


Else


submit thoses commands to generate manualy the keys:

ssh-keygen -t dsa -f $etcdir/ssh_host_key -N ''
ssh-keygen -d -f $etcdir/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ''
ssh-keygen -t dsa -f $etcdir/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ''
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f $etcdir/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ''

Replace $etcdir with your own ssh etc directory, generaly /etc/ssh

 

[ogniemi]

you should generate theses keys in location where you sshd.conf points to:

probably your sshd_config is in location /usr/local/etc/sshd.conf

if the keys should be in /usr/local/etc (it is mentioned in the sshd.conf), then run the command if keys are really missed:

ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key -N ''
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ''
ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ''


as I remeber the file names ssh_host_dsa_key, ssh_host_rsa_key and ssh_host_key are default host key names.

probably you modified your config and it looks for /ssh-host_key, /ssh-host_rsa_key, /ssh-host_dsa_key

So, probably you have in /usr/local/etc/sshd_config

this:
HostKey /ssh-host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /ssh-host_rsa_key
HostKey /ssh-host_dsa_key



instead of default

#HostKey /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
#HostKey /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key


r, m.