/etc/ssh/moduli

[Shaji Chempath]

Hi,

I am running "OpenSSH_3.0.1p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL
0x0090602f".

In my logfiles I get a message as follows :

Unusual System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
... ...... sshd[4904]: WARNING: /etc/ssh/moduli does not exist, using
old
modulus

What does this mean?. I dont have the file /etc/ssh/moduli. How do I
generate that file. Is it necessary to have that file ?

Thanks for the help

Shaji

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[Richard Silverman]

> ... ...... sshd[4904]: WARNING: /etc/ssh/moduli does not exist, using
> old
> modulus
>
> What does this mean?. I dont have the file /etc/ssh/moduli.

http://www.snailbook.com/faq/ossh-primes-file.auto.HTML

The faq needs updating, as the file has been renamed "moduli", but the
issue is the same.

> How do I generate that file.

It comes with the OpenSSH portable source, or as part of OpenBSD:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/moduli?rev=1.1

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Richard Silverman
sl...@shore.net

[Markus Friedl]

In <3C3B2B77...@northwestern.edu> Shaji Chempath <sh...@northwestern.edu> writes:

>Unusual System Events
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>... ...... sshd[4904]: WARNING: /etc/ssh/moduli does not exist, using
>old
>modulus

>What does this mean?. I dont have the file /etc/ssh/moduli. How do I
>generate that file.

make install

[Shaji Chempath]

Thanks to Richard and Markus,
Just copying the moduli file from the site specified by Richard solved
the problem. I had installed the ssh through debian's online updating
using dselect. Maybe that file was missing,

Shaji.