Sounds like you have an operating system with a broken random number
generator.

Someone is going to say "but it is so hard in VMs".  Yes it is hard
if the vendors do a poor job of handling it.  If they do a good job,
it is easy.

Anyways, Linux discussions are off-topic for OpenBSD mailing lists.


Christopher Johns <[email protected]> wrote:

> Good Evening,
> 
> Recently it has been brought to my attention that we may have several Linux
> hosts that may have the same problem ssh-rsa key pairs.
> 
> Is it possible if I use a server template to create Linux servers, for
> OpenSSH to create the same host keys in /etc/ssh for the servers created by
> my template?
> 
> Also, how does OpenSSH create the key pairs, by some random process called
> when OpenSSH is installed or when the new server is booted for the first
> time?
> 
> Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris Johns
> UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator

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