When client connect to RHEL5 server using ssh, the following message is followed "error: Bad prime description in line 216 WARNING: no suitable primes in /etc/ssh/primes

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Issue

  • When client connect to RHEL5 server using ssh, the following message is followed "error: Bad prime description in line 216 WARNING: no suitable primes in /etc/ssh/primes"

    error: Bad prime description in line 1
error: Bad prime description in line 2
....
error: Bad prime description in line 216
WARNING: no suitable primes in /etc/ssh/primes

    Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • openssh-server

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