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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:53:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: "Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key"
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Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 16:20:35 +0100 on Sunday, February 6, 2011:
 > On Feb  6 09:49, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 11:09:57 +0100 on Sunday, February 6, 2011:
 > >  > sshd tries to load this key by default, but it's missing in your setup,
 > >  > that's why you get a warning from sshd.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Re-run the latest ssh-host-config script from the openssh-5.8p1
 > >  > package.  You'll see a line like
 > >  > 
 > >  >   *** Info: Generating /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
 > >  > 
 > > I ran it on 3 new, fresh, blank installs and in all cases it only
 > > generated the usual 3-key pairs:
 > > 		ssh_host_key
 > > 		ssh_host_rsa_key
 > > 		ssh_host_dsa_key
 > > 
 > > So perhaps the problem is that ssh-host-config is not generating the
 > > new key.
 > > By the way, I was using 5.7p1-1 which was up to date as of late last
 > > week.
 > 
 > Maybe that's why I explicitely wrote to use "the latest ssh-host-config
 > script from the openssh-5.8p1 package"...

Gotya! Thanks -- I hadn't realized it was updated in the last couple
of days. That worked...

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