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I am running the latest build of OpenSSH (4.3p2) from CentOS 5. When I attempt to start the server with /etc/init.d/sshd start, this is the output from bash:

Starting sshd: 
   /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 130: Bad configuration option: HashKnownHosts
   /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 134: Bad configuration option: StrictHostKeyChecking
   /etc/ssh/sshd_config: terminating, 2 bad configuration options

My man page for sshd indicates that it supports a hashed known_hosts file, but the man page I have for sshd_config does not mention either of these directives.

Are HashKnownHosts and StrictHostKeyChecking included in the RHEL / CentOS maintained version of OpenSSH?

If not, what work-arounds are available to me? Can I safely install the newest stable version of OpenSSH from source? I'm unwilling to leave known_hosts in plain-text.

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Try /etc/ssh/ssh_config instead of sshd config. These settings seem to be for the ssh client, not the daemon.

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Thanks, that was it! I was simply glancing over the missing 'd' when I searched the documentation. :p – robjb Jan 18 '11 at 20:39
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