sshd problems (ssh_host_key Bad file descriptor, and no ssh_host_dsa_key)

Greetings all...

I apologize if this question has been asked before (I know it has been asked
on the handhelds mailing list, but I couldn't find an answer to it), and for
my ignorance when it comes to sshd, but...

I've installed the 0.4 bootstrap task, set up PPP on the iPaq, and my Linux
box, and am now trying to ssh into the iPaq from my Linux box. The problem
is that when the iPaq boots (or when I try to run sshd from the command
line), I get the following errors:

error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key: Bad file descriptor
Disabling protocol version 1
error: Could not load DSA host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Disabling protocol version 2
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

I ran ssh-keygen, and told it to put the host key files in /etc/ssh. It
created ssh_host_key, and ssh_host_key.pub in /etc/ssh, but I'm still
getting the errors above.

My questions therefore are:

- What does the "Bad file descriptor" error mean?
- Why does sshd also seem to be looking for ssh_host_dsa_key (which
ssh-keygen did not create - I looked at the ssh-keygen manpage - I believe
it was for OpenBSD's version of sshd - and was reading about the -t dsa
option, but the version of sshd on the iPaq doesn't support this option)?

If anyone could point me in the direction of some
information/documentation/etc., I would be most appreciative.

Thanks in advance...

Dave Bruzzone
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 17:45:17 EDT