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Re: Nits in unstable ssh config



On 2001.12.28 02:45 Michael D. Crawford wrote:
I updated ssh and some other packages from unstable today, and when it installed, and also when my machine boots, I get the message:

Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 53:
  Deprecated option Checkmail
Disabling protocol version 2.  Could not load host key

and indeed when I try to use the putty ssh client from Windows to log into the machine, I ask for ssh2 but it falls back to ssh1.

To get rid of the first message I commented off this line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

CheckMail no
changed to
#CheckMail no

and added a second line for the ssh2 host key.  I started with:

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key

and changed it to:

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

If I only use ssh_host_dsa_key, then ssh1 is disabled. I would prefer to only use ssh2, but I think there is only an ssh1 client available for classic Mac OS (NiftyTelnet SSH)

I have debian powerpc unstable installed on my Macintosh 8500.

I have had the same problems when logging in from a Windows machine using Putty or from the commercial but free SSH to a Linux machine running OpenSSH. I have to use a password rather than passphrase to login. I also need to use a password to login from OpenSSH to a Linux machine running commercial SSH.


--
Andrew



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