Bug 567

Summary:	ssh-keygen: DH parameter generation failed
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Jean-Christophe Penalva <penalva>
Component:	ssh-keygen	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	penalva
Priority:	P1
Version:	-current
Hardware:	MIPS
OS:	IRIX

Description Jean-Christophe Penalva 2003-05-15 19:03:17 AEST

At the end of the install process of openSSH 3.6.1p2 on irix 6.5.18f, there's a
pb with the ssh-keygen. I've the messages :
/usr/local/etc/ssh_config already exists, install will not overwrite
/usr/local/etc/sshd_config already exists, install will not overwrite
/usr/local/etc/ssh_prng_cmds already exists, install will not overwrite
/usr/local/etc/moduli already exists, install will not overwrite
Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
rsa_generate_private_key: key generation failed.
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
dsa_generate_private_key: DSA_generate_parameters failed
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
rsa_generate_private_key: key generation failed.
make: *** [host-key] Error 255

The env variables :
CC=cc
CFLAGS="-mips3 -n32 -O2"
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
My configure options are :
./configure --with-privsep-user=sshd --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl
--with-tcp-wrappers=/usr/local/pub/tcp_wrappers_7.6
--with-default-path=/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/sbin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/freeware/bin:/usr/oem/bin

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2003-05-15 22:04:46 AEST

This could be a problem in OpenSSL. Did you compile OpenSSL yourself? If so,
please run the "make test" target (or equivalent) and verify it is functioning
correctly.

Otherwise, try running "openssl dsaparam 1024"

Comment 2 Jean-Christophe Penalva 2003-05-16 00:17:37 AEST

Ok, it was a pb in OpenSSL during compil, now after a recompilation with gcc all
works.
Thank you.

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:19 AEST

Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED