Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Fixing "ECDSA unknown key type" error in OpenSSH

http://blog.slogra.com/post-169.html


If error message "ssh-keygen: generating new host keys: ECDSA unknown key type" appeared after starting sshd, then running the below commands should fix it.


touch /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
touch /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub