ssh-keygen opens NULL filename

Mark Janssen maniac at maniac.nl
Wed Oct 16 21:38:58 EST 2002


On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 13:08, Darren Tucker wrote:
> Martin MOKREJ© wrote:
> >   it's impossible to use -f option with ssh-keygen with version 3.5p1:
> > 
> > $ ./ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ""
> > Generating public/private dsa key pair.
> > open  failed: No such file or directory.
> > Saving the key failed: .

Maybe a stupid suggestion, maybe it's allready been said (I didn't check
the entire discussion).

But, were you root (since I'm seeing a $ prompt), or otherwise possible
to write in /etc/ssh ???

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