ssh host_key error

Ernie Luzar luzar722 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 21:47:14 UTC 2016


Hello list

Just completed installing 10.3 from scratch to a empty disk.
The first time I tried to remotely ssh into host I got these error messages.

  sshd[1347]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
  sshd[1347]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
  sshd[1347]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
  sshd[1347]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key


If I remember correctly these keys were populated on the first boot of a 
newly installed system. Does ssh have some job to populate those keys 
that I can manually run?

Thanks list



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