Hi All,

I was following an instructions in the Installing OpenSSH Packages - SPARC and Intel/Solaris 8 regarding ssh installation on Solaris 8.

When I got on "Step Five: Installing ssh and sshd" and run the following:

# ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key -N ""
PRNG is not seeded
#

What did I do wrong? Please help.

Thanks in advance.

There was a faq on how to fix that, I did that by patching it with [112438 (Sparc) or 112439 (x86)]

but I got this on the next steps:

# /etc/rc2.d/S98sshd start
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key' are too open
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessibl
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key' are too
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessibl
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key' are too
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessibl
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_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.
#

So I change the permission to 0600 to the three files above. Then wala...

Thanks!

You would not had gone thru the hassle if you've just used " ssh-keygen -t rsa " alone, I guess.. I remember myself creating the keys in that manner. Anyway good finding dudem