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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