SSH doesnt let me login (fwd)

[Debojyoti Dutta]

You are right, first I installed openssl-0.9.6 ... yet ssh wouldntr
install. Hence I installed openssl-0.9.5 and others using --force.

Is there anything I could do to rectify the situation ?

Regards
Debo


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Debojyoti Dutta wrote:
> 
> > OK. So I installed the RPMs as people advised. By mistake I used --force
> > while installing the rpms. Now, ssh runs properly ... it seems to be using
> > teh old ssh keys. When I do a key-gen, it crashes
> >
> > ------
> > [root at tea /root]# ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N ""
> > Generating public/private rsa1 key pair.
> > /etc/ssh_host_key already exists.
> > Overwrite (y/n)? y
> > Your identification has been saved in /etc/ssh_host_key.
> > Segmentation fault
> > [root at tea /root]#
> > ------
> 
> Very probably the error you skipped with --force was caused by mismatching
> OpenSSL version.  These exist for a reason, you know.
> 
> >
> > Debo
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Debojyoti Dutta wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > so what are the features that are used to build the rpm. maybe someone
> > > > > could add that in the faq list. i had to use the source distribution
> > > > > because i couldnt find a rpm for openssl.
> > > >
> > > > Use the Source, Luke. :-)  All the relevant information is available at
> > > > contrib/redhat/openssh.spec.
> > > >
> > > > OpenSSL is available at e.g. Red Hat's errata pages for RHL62.  Also,
> > > > Damien Miller has also made these available.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Also OpenSSL RPMs can be found on www.openssl.org
> > >
> > > - Ben
> > >
> >
> 
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