On 01/22/2013 02:11 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > I spent hours at work today getting sshd to function on > my desktop which I just switched to booting from the > fedora 18 partition. I finally discovered this: > > [root@zooty ~]# ls -l /etc/ssh > total 276 > -rw------- 1 root root 245058 Dec 3 11:43 moduli > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2104 Dec 3 11:43 ssh_config > -r--------. 1 root ssh_keys 668 Dec 5 20:35 ssh_host_dsa_key > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 590 Dec 5 20:35 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub > -r--------. 1 root ssh_keys 963 Dec 5 20:35 ssh_host_key > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 627 Dec 5 20:35 ssh_host_key.pub > -r--------. 1 root ssh_keys 1675 Dec 5 20:35 ssh_host_rsa_key > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 382 Dec 5 20:35 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub > -rw------- 1 root root 4615 Dec 26 14:47 sshd_config > > The private key files now want to be group "ssh_keys". > > If, like me, you've been copying your /etc/ssh host key files > from release to release in order to preserve your machine's > ssh identity, then you may not have the group correct after > the copy (depending on if you overwrite or replace). > > Without the correct group on the hostkey files, every attempt > at an ssh connection of any kind results in a "connection > closed" error and much confusion :-). Thanks, very useful info! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
