sshd won't start in slackware

**nairb** · 06-11-2005

I recently bought a new computer, so I turned my old one into a Linux box, for the time being. I installed the newest version of OpenSSH on it a few days ago so I could run sshd on it, but I can't get the daemon to start. I typed "/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start" and it didn't display any message so I assumed it worked. When I ran "ssh 127.0.0.1" it said "connection refused," so I nmapped myself and apparently port 22 is closed. I tried killing all sshd processes completely by doing "killall -HUP sshd" and it said "no processes killed." It says the same thing ("no processes killed") when I do "/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd restart." Why isn't the daemon even starting?

**eugrus** · 06-11-2005

Code:

/sbin/service sshd start

**T40Slack** · 06-11-2005

Originally Posted by eugrus

Code:

/sbin/service sshd start

Dude, this does not work in Slackware...

try just running the sshd command to see if you get any msgs then...

Code:

#/usr/sbin/sshd

Then post them on here...

**nairb** · 06-12-2005

No messages when I try that either, but it still doesn't start. Running it as root gives me:

Code:

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING&#58; UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_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&#58; ignore key&#58; /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
Could not load host key&#58; /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING&#58; UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_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&#58; ignore key&#58; /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key&#58; /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING&#58; UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 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&#58; ignore key&#58; /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Could not load host key&#58; /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
sshd&#58; no hostkeys available -- exiting.

Needless to say, it doesn't start after it says all that stuff.

I dunno if this helps or not, but sshd worked just a few days ago. I started it using

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start

and it ran flawlessly. I had to turn the computer off yesterday and after I turned it back on, sshd stopped working.

**T40Slack** · 06-12-2005

Have you tried actually changing the permission on these 3 files to RW for root?

Code:

#chmod 600 &#91;file_name&#93;

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