Well, sort of solved. I ended up purging ssh and reinstalling it. (I had to do dpkg --purge, not just dpkg -r, so I must have had something wrong in one of the config files.)
Now, all is working well. Thanks for all who replied -- I'm posting this in the hopes that it will help someone down the road. --kurt ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: unable to load ssh2 protocol Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:42:31 -0800 From: Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org After a recent apt-get upgrade on a woody box, I am unable to use version 2 of ssh. (v1 and 1.5 seem to work fine) When starting sshd, I get the following error message: "Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key" Googling suggests that I need to recreate ssh_host_*_key, so, I did: ssh-keygen -t dsa and ssh-keygen -t rsa making sure that both of the resulting key pairs now reside in: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_<rsa/dsa>_key and ensured that the permission are correct. (all files are root r/w. .pub files are world readable.) However, i still get this problem. I've tried explicitly entering the path ot the keys in the sshd_config file: HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key (and the corresponding entry for dsa) but that doesn't help, either. My daemon.log and syslog don't show any pertinent entries. Starting /usr/sbin/sshd -d -d results in the following: debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.9p2 debug1: private host key: #0 type 0 RSA1 Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key debug1: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0. Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. Generating 768 bit RSA key. RSA key generation complete. I'm not terribly familiar with the inner workings of ssh, so I'm assuming I'm doing something obviously wrong. Can anyone help? --kurt -------------------------------------------------------
