Re: keying a fresh sshd

Carl Karsten wrote:

> cool.  This was my suspicion, but my first attempt failed so just 
> getting confirmation that it is what I need to do is a big help.
> 
> I just copied the whole dir to another box.  I'll reinstall and diff the 
> new dir to the old and post the results (not that anyone here asked for 
> them, but may as well for posterity.)

the files you need specifically are, at least on my distro, found in 
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_* There should be between 2 and 6 files depending on 
the type of keys you configured for. Most likely there will be 6.


> One thing that took me by surprise about Ubuntu: it does not install 
> make and gcc by default. 

That kinda creeps me out.


> hard way: starting from scratch, when no one has built a package for the 
> app.  I have tried, and failed.  lucky for me it was just a matter of 
> looking harder for someone elses work, and I could fall back to medium :)

That's basically the method that I had to use for around 10 years (until 
'96 or so when I started using the ports system under BSD). So I still 
tend to think in terms of just building everything from source.

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