Re: Getting started with OpenSSH and SFTP: key setup

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The PASE environment will choke on a userid that's longer than 8 
characters.

On 2/4/2010 9:51 AM, Versfelt, Charles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting started on an SFTP project, trying to follow the steps in an article by Scott Klement,
> "The SSH, SCP and SFTP Tools from OpenSSH."
>
> I got to the part "Generating Server Keys"
>
> Did this:  Call QP2Term
>
> Did this: cd /QOpenSys/QIBM/UserData/SC1/OpenSSH/openssh-3.5p1/etc
>
> Did this:    ssh-keygen -N "" -t rsa1 -f ssh_host_key
>
> Got the message:
> Couldn't get password entry for current user (1224): File name too long
> ssh-rand-helper child produced insufficient data
>
> Is this an authority issue, or is there something else I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie