-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/22/2008 07:06 AM, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote: > Dear All FEDORA Users, > > I am a new bir in fedora linux system as administrator. > > Please tell me one thing. > > In my fedora linux os server, i am not able to sshd service . > > The thing is that, once I had to change the permissions of the files > just in order to avoid the other users to explore the system, using > chmod command. However, I have immediately changed the permissons again > back. > > > Soon after that I could not log on to the fedora server systm using the > ssh serverhostname username command. > > When tried to run sshd service using service sshd restart, I got the > folloeing errors shown below:- > > > Permissions 0755 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key' are too open. > It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. > This private key will be ignored. > bad permissions :ignore key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > Could not load host key : /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key > Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key > sshd: no hostkeys available --exiting > > > > Please immedialtely let me know, what to fix in order to restart the > service sshd. > > > > Thanks, > Jyotishmaan Ray > Moderator Of Paradise Groups > http://yahoogroups.com/group/Spirituality-Paradise > > If you must reply to digest messges, please trim them to the relevant portion. $ ll /etc/ssh* total 164 - -rw------- 1 root root 125811 2008-10-17 03:44 moduli - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1964 2008-10-17 03:44 ssh_config - -rw------- 1 root root 3658 2008-05-23 18:38 sshd_config - -rw------- 1 root root 3711 2008-10-17 03:44 sshd_config.rpmnew - -rw------- 1 root root 668 2008-05-23 17:52 ssh_host_dsa_key - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 2008-05-23 17:52 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub - -rw------- 1 root root 963 2008-05-23 17:52 ssh_host_key - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 627 2008-05-23 17:52 ssh_host_key.pub - -rw------- 1 root root 1675 2008-05-23 17:52 ssh_host_rsa_key - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382 2008-05-23 17:52 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub - -- Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklPk+IACgkQeERILVgMyvDGtgCfavM35JCAWBoJ/7At23Q/UNId PPwAn1aFBGyjjd3Mv4+NFP++Wk1PAZ/v =x3KJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines