Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] troubles whit ssh

[Eli H. <el...@se...>]

On Friday 02 November 2007 06:10:55 pm victor nikiforenko wrote:
> Hi Eli
>
> When i typing i make a mistake:
> > Starting SSHD: Could not load host key:
> >          /etc/ssh/ssh_rsa_key
>
> realy is /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key and the error is
> because whe i do it whit my personalized key i use
> other name and thank you i can see the error
> "> AuthorizedKeysFile      /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key"
> but i continue whit the problem when i conect from ha
> remote host i can in whitout a public key.
>
> Thank a lot for your help
>
> Vitor Arango Nikiforenko
>

Victor,

The "Could not load private key" error you mentioned would be caused by:

- bad permissions on the private key file (should be owned by root and chmod 
0600)
- no key file
- key has a passphrase (see below)

When you used the 'ssh-keygen' command, were you intending to create a new 
server host key or a new client key?

I suspect what happened is that you created a new server key file with a 
passphrase. Is this correct? If this is what happened, you need to create a 
new ssh_host_rsa_key without a passphrase.

*IF* you think this is correct, runnig this command on your DL box will fix 
it:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/sshd_host_rsa_key -N ""

-eli