Hi,

Am running the following commands on our server to generate a key for passwordless SSH, however we are getting 100% blank key files.

E.g. when looking id_dsa.pub or id_dsa they are 100% empty - the files get created, but contain no content and have a file size of 0b.

mkdir ~/.ssh
chmod 0700 ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t dsa -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa

*no pass phrase is put in*

Your identification has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_dsa.
Your public key has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
xx:xx:xx:xxx........

And then the files id_dsa amd id_dsa.pub are both empty. There but empty.

Any ideas?

I have tried all the various different options for CHMOD at the start, 777, 755, 666 etc ... I have also tried both with and without a password. All of them still give me an empty file.