On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:24:47 -0500, "Clayton Scott Kern" > > What's the permissions for the .ssh directory. I had problems in the > past if it's not 700. There was an entry in /var/log/messages or its > equivalent, stating as such. > > This would come up on new systems, because I usually had to create the > .ssh directory and the umask would cause it to have 755. > > -- > Clayton Scott Kern > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The software stated it required > UNIX System Administrator Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher, > FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris & so I installed FreeBSD. > HP-UX
Thanks, Clayton! It looks like someone has installed the ssh2 package on this machine (using "pkg_add -r ssh2"). So this is not a standard freebsd ssh installation. In fact, testing on another box with freebsd 6, I can connect with Putty using public key authentication. Does anyone know how to get the standard ssh to work on this machine without upsetting things too much? It is currently running a mail server and cvs, so I'm ginger about doing anything radical on it. Doing a ps -ax shows that it's sshd2 that is running, and not sshd. But the binaries ARE there for sshd. Except the hostkey doesn't seem to be there. Could fixing this be as simple as creating a hostkey for sshd as well, and running it on a different port than sshd2 is running on? Thank you! Regards, DB -- david bryce [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely differentÂ… _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"