Hey i'm trying to install/configure ssh on my ubuntu 8.04 desktop edition i get the following errors...any help would be really appreciated, if you need any more information let me know blackbox@blackbox:~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-client [sudo] password for blackbox: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done openssh-client is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up openssh-server (1:4.7p1-8ubuntu1.2) ... /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 19: Bad configuration option: Host /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 48: Bad configuration option: SendEnv /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 49: Bad configuration option: HashKnownHosts /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 51: Bad configuration option: GSSAPIDelegateCredentials /etc/ssh/sshd_config: terminating, 4 bad configuration options invoke-rc.d: initscript ssh, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing openssh-server (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: openssh-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) perhaps I need to uninstall it and try installing it again? let me know cheers
Looks like something happened in a previous attempt to install said package. I would try sudo apt-get remove --purge openssh-server then try to reinstall it with sudo apt-get install openssh-server. Failing that, you could try going in to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and deleting everything that has to do with openssh-server (as in rm /var/lib/dpkg/openssh-server-*) although that's a last resort. After that you'd want to install it again. *IF* you have anything important in your sshd config, I'd back that up first.
cheers jon...tried that but i'm still getting similar errors - however i've since resolved it by getting rid of the /etc/sshd_config file....there was something wrong with it so binned it...thanks for your help!
