Re: [PLUG] sshd - why can't I cat my ssh_host_key?

[Douglas Lentz <dlentz@dca.net>]

Aaron Mulder wrote:

> 	When you do ls /etc/ssh* you're getting the contents in
> /etc/ssh/, so the file you're looking for is /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.  If 
> you ran "ls -d /etc/ssh*" you'd see that it's a directory you're hitting.  
>
> Aaron
>
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Douglas Lentz wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm trying to get sshd running on various flavor boxes, cygwin and red hat.
> >
> > When I go to my Red Hat 9 box and do an ls /etc/ssh* I get
> >
> > -rw-------    1 root     root        88039 Feb 14  2003 moduli
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1167 Feb 14  2003 ssh_config
> > -rw-------    1 root     root         2474 Feb 14  2003 sshd_config
> > -rw-------    1 root     root          672 Oct 26  2003 ssh_host_dsa_key
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          590 Oct 26  2003 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
> > -rw-------    1 root     root          515 Oct 26  2003 ssh_host_key
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          319 Oct 26  2003 ssh_host_key.pub
> > -rw-------    1 root     root          883 Oct 26  2003 ssh_host_rsa_key
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          210 Oct 26  2003 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
> >
> >
> > Looks like RH installed protocols 1 and 2 for me. OK, but if I do a cat 
> > /etc/ssh_host_key I get
> >
> > "cat: ssh_host_key: No such file or directory".
> >
> > Ditto for ls. I am su'd to root. Looks like root is the owner of 
> > ssh_host_key. What am I missing? Why can't I read it?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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Thanks. This is my fault, for not running "info ls" and assuming that ls 
is just like the old MS-DOS dir.

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