Bug 416 - problems with sshd starting up and hostkeys
Summary: problems with sshd starting up and hostkeys
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: sshd (show other bugs)
Version: -current
Hardware: ix86 Linux
: P2 major
Assignee: OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list
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Reported: 2002-10-18 05:34 AEST by Sally Laurent-Muehleisen
Modified: 2004-04-14 12:24 AEST (History)
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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