Bug 416

Summary:	problems with sshd starting up and hostkeys
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Sally Laurent-Muehleisen <slauren>
Component:	sshd	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME
Severity:	major
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	ix86
OS:	Linux

Description Sally Laurent-Muehleisen 2002-10-18 05:34:14 AEST

Hi, I've just installed 3.5p1 of the openssh package on a RedHat linux pentium
machine.  I have a number of problems.  First, the sshd does not start up
automatically when I boot.  When I try to start it from the root account, I get
the error:
Privilege separation user sshd does not exist

When I try to start it up from my (usual) user account, I get the following error:

Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

I have tried running make host-key several times, as well as running the 
commands separtely.

Comment 1 Markus Friedl 2002-10-18 06:48:21 AEST

you have to read the README's from the distribution
and created the 'sshd' user.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:18 AEST

Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED