cannot ssh

[hirohitosan]

Hi there.
I enable sshd through inetd. When I try to connect:

ssh my.server
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

and on my server a message appear:

sshd[1016]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

do I need to add something like a dsa key?

thanks

 

[danger@]

yes, it has to be there.

If you run # /etc/rc.d/sshd forcestart it should be automatically generated.

Then you can stop sshd and start it from within inetd (if you like that more)...

 

[hirohitosan]

Then you can stop sshd and start it from within inetd (if you like that more)...

well I don't know which is the best way to start. Within ined or stand alone ...
I enable inetd and start ftpd and sshd with. I was thinking to use inetd, otherwise I have no reason to start it at boot

 

[DutchDaemon]

Use inetd for moderate use of ssh (a few logins per day). Use rc.conf if you have a lot of ssh login activity. In that case it saves a lot of overhead having sshd run as a daemon. That goes for everything using either inetd or rc.conf (like ftpd).

 

[SirDice]

I was thinking to use inetd, otherwise I have no reason to start it at boot

If you don't use it don't run it

 

[ale]

Try $ ssh $USER@$HOST
Where $HOST is the remote host where sshd is running
and $USER is a user defined in the remote host

 

[hirohitosan]

If you don't use it don't run it

well it was always a dilemma for me this inetd. It worth to run it for spawn two servers like sshd and ftpd, or it is almost the same thing to run the two servers in standalone?

Which of you guys use inetd and for what?

 

[kamikaze]

I use inetd to run the fingerd.

 

[DutchDaemon]

well it was always a dilemma for me this inetd. It worth to run it for spawn two servers like sshd and ftpd, or it is almost the same thing to run the two servers in standalone?

Like I said earlier, it really depends on how often these services are used. If you have people ssh'ing and ftp'ing into your server every few minutes, I would most certainly run them in daemon mode, just to save on the overhead of starting up and shutting down these servers from inetd. If you're the only user, and you only log in once or twice a day, inetd is good enough.