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Re: Nits in unstable ssh config



Thus spake Michael D. Crawford:
> 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.
There is also a program called, I think, MacSSHPPC, that is
downloadable from zdnet for free, that handles ssh2.
HTH,
Steve
-- 
Manly's Maxim:
	Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion
	with confidence.

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