Re: [IBMiOSS] Can't Start SSH - Could Not Load Host Key

Find this line in /QOpenSys/QIBM/UserData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/sshd_config and
remove it:
 
HostKey /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
 
DSA keys are no longer considered secure. Not sure what happened to it,
but you could say good riddance.
 

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From: Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [IBMiOSS] Can't Start SSH - Could Not Load Host Key
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2021 2:39 PM
 
I have a client who just installed some PTFs (V7R3) and now their SSH
server will not start using STRTCPSVR *SSHD.  I tried the QSHELL command
and saw this error:

Could not load host key:
/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/SC1/OpenSSH/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key

I am looking through Google but can't find anything specific to the IBM
i
(yet).

Any ideas?

Bradley V. Stone
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