Updating from 6.6 - 6.9 SSH

[Nick Stanoszek]

Hi again,

I ran the commands exactly.  I see that some keys are not overwritten and
skipped---but some are still created.

I just tried again...and still get an error.

Thoughts to prevent it from overwriting my keys?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Nick Stanoszek <nstanoszek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi I am having issues withupdating ssh from 6.6 to 6.9.  When i update it,
>> it works; however, I cannot successfully SSH back into the server.  I get
>> a
>> publickey error.
>>
>
> Exactly what error?
>
>
>> I am following the directions here:
>>
>>
>> https://kenkoehlerca.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/upgrading-to-openssh-6-7p1-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-4
>
>
> I would guess that you didn't actually follow those directions, in
> particular this bit:
>
>  sudo ./configure  –sysconfdir=/etc/ssh
>
> Leaving aside that there's no need to run that under sudo, omitting the
> sysconfdir will end up with the host keys in /usr/local/etc, and since they
> won't exist there you'll get a fresh set generated rather than using the
> ones in /etc/ssh, which will cause a hostkey mismatch.
>
> --
> Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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