[PLUG] Enabling bi-directional ssh

[David]

On 11/07/2016 11:25 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>>   On the server/workstation and a portable ~/.ssh has 700 perms while the
>> authorized_keys, known_hosts, and *.pub key files in that directory have 644
>> perms; the others are 600.
>
>    I've identified the problem and am working on finding the solution. It
> turns out that on the portable, the ssh_host* keys are empty files. That's
> why sshd does not start when the system is booted or root tries to start it.

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Glad to hear you figured out why ssh wasn't firing up.

I don't recall which OS, but this link has the two main streams:

<http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1204829>

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