Hi. On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:29:01 +0100 arian <deb...@semioptimal.net> wrote:
> > Because you can install ssh client without a server, but a > > ssh server without a client on the same host is not of much use to > > anyone. > > Is that so? I have a couple of hosts where I cannot remember runner ssh > myself ever. Actually more than hosts without sshd (only one) It boils down to ssh-keygen actually. It's impossible to connect to ssh daemon if it's missing host keys from /etc/ssh. The only sane way of getting those host keys is to generate them before first launch of sshd. In Debian such generation is handled by openssh-server postinst script, and it involves ssh-keygen. ssh-keygen is a part of openssh-client. Reco