Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (421 mails)

[Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@xxxxxxx>]

[ Quoting rearranged for readability -- could you please get used
to quote relevant parts only and answer below citations?
Everything else wastes other people's time and resources. ]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 15:18 -0700, StarTux wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Michael Chletsos wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, StarTux wrote:
> > >
> > > Just upgraded to the new OpenSSH 2.9 and encountered what I
> > > believe is a problem loading the SSH2 part.
> > >
> > > I get this when reloading the SSH daemon:
> > >
> > > Starting SSH daemonDisabling protocol version 2. Could not
> > > load host key
> > 
> > depending on where you installed openSSH, but you have to run
> > ssh-keygen2 and then you will have created the key. [ ... ]
> 
> Does not seem to exist on my system...Just installed the update
> via Yast, wonder if its been merged into ssh-keygen?  Actually
> I think it has...Damn new stuff :-).

Well, you could do something silly and look at the accompanying
doc (i.e. RTFM).  The problem with it would be that you had to do
it yourself and would get an immediate anser instead of waiting
for somebody to tell you ...

Here's what an older OpenSSH implementation says, so the exact
same information should be available to you in the newer version,
too.

$ ssh -V
SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0 green@xxxxxxxxxxx 20010321, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
Compiled with SSL (0x0090600f).
$ man -k keygen
dnskeygen(1) - generate public, private, and shared secret keys for DNS Security
ssh-keygen(1)            - authentication key generation
$ man ssh-keygen
[ ... ]

DESCRIPTION
     ssh-keygen generates and manages authentication keys for ssh(1).  ssh-
     keygen defaults to generating an RSA key for use by protocols 1.3 and
     1.5; specifying the -d flag will create a DSA key instead for use by pro-
     tocol 2.0.

[ ... ]

When talking about SuSE or Linux in general and especially about
RPMs you can do something along the lines of

$ man rpm
$ PACKAGE=$( rpm -q -f $( which ssh ) )
$ rpm -qd $PACKAGE
$ rpm -ql $PACKAGE

plus you could use one of the thousand graphical frontends for
RPM if you're not comfortable at a prompt.  The above commands
simply
- assume that you don't know the package name, but you remember
  one of the commands coming with it (of course *you* might even
  know the name of the package you recently installed)
- ask for a list of doc files the package had in it -- not for
  fun but for finding interesting manpages and text files
- ask for a list of _all_ files inside the package to see which
  commands look like preparation / administration / etc stuff


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