Hi All

I have one problem in SSH configuraton because when I am starting the sshd daemon
it is giving me following error.

Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
Missing privilege separation directory: /var/empty

Although I have installed SSH daemon and I have created public key's successfuly
but I am stuck with this problem.

Best Regards

Sukrut

Found this . . .

# /etc/init.d/sshd start
starting SSHD daemon
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
#

The errors above are due to the fact that they didn't create any key pairs for their ssh server.

It could also mean you don't have the /dev/random patch installed.

You don't say if you are using openssh or Sun's SSH. Read through http://sunfreeware.com/openssh.html as a nice guide.

I have same error message. It was a problem with privilege.

I did :

mkdir /var/empty
chown root:sys /var/empty
chmod 755 /var/empty
groupadd sshd
useradd -g sshd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty -s /bin/false sshd
chown root /etc/init.d/sshd
chgrp sys /etc/init.d/sshd
chmod 555 /etc/init.d/sshd

After that it works.

Regards Stefan