How to Restart the service sshd in Fedora Linux System ?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 05:06 -0800, Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:
> Dear All FEDORA Users,
> 
> I am a new bir in fedora linux system as administrator.
> 
> Please tell me one thing. 
> 
> In my fedora linux os server, i am not able to sshd service .
> 
> The thing is that, once I had to change the permissions of the files
> just in order to avoid the other users to explore the system, using
> chmod command. However, I have immediately changed the permissons
> again back.
> 
> 
> Soon after that I could not log on to the fedora server systm using
> the ssh  serverhostname username command.
> 
> When tried to run sshd service using service sshd restart, I got the
> folloeing errors shown below:-
> 
> 
> Permissions 0755 for '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key' are too open.
> It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by
> others.
> This private key will be ignored.
> bad permissions :ignore key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
> Could not load host key : /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
> Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
> sshd: no  hostkeys available --exiting
> 
> 
> 
> Please immedialtely let me know, what to fix in order to restart the
> service sshd.
> 
Permissions should be 700.