From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) I have just applied the new security update of openssh-2.5.2p2-1.7.2. When I try to start sshd I get the message Generating SSH2 RSA host key: Failed. I ran /usr/bin/ssh-keygen --help and it reports the error given above in the summary. I already had openssl-0.9.6-1 installed, obtained from the contrib section, because I am using postfix. It was working fine with openssh-2.3.0p1-4 but is now broken. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openssl-0.9.6-1 and openssh-2.5.2p2-1.7.2 2. start sshd or run /usr/bin/ssh-keygen 3. Actual Results: OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 90581f, you have 90600f Expected Results: The keygen program should have run.
You have to recompile OpenSSH against your version of OpenSSL or go back to the version OpenSSH was compiled against. Else you get a lot of weird errors.