[Bug 876910] Re: When starting open ssh server without host keys in /etc/ssh/, the keys are not automatically generated.

[Jon]

After further testing, determined that my patch did not actually resolve
the issue.

Seems to be an issue with triggering the following sub:

check_rsa_keys () {
    #Checks for the existance of RSA keys and generates them if necessary
    RSA1_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
    RSA_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
    DSA_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

    if [ ! -s $RSA_KEY ] || [! -s $RSA1_KEY] || [! -s $DSA_KEY]; then
        exec /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
    fi
}

Initially, I had added the above if/then statement to my /etc/init.d/ssh
script towards the beginning (starting at line 13 to be exact) before I
created the subroutine and the patch.

Pardon my blonde moment.

That being said, -where- can we add a check for the existence of the
host keys?

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  When starting open ssh server without host keys in /etc/ssh/, the keys
  are not automatically generated.

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