Hello all!

So I had a power outage a while back and it borked the BBS with Raspbian throwing Kernel errors. I couldn't get it resolved, so I ended up just restoring the BBS data back on a fresh install. I have gotten everything but SSH to work again. I am getting an error when trying to connect with SSH:

Unable to set key (-2)

Based on the error it's something with the encryption key, so I am not sure where to start looking or what it could be. I installed Libcrypt successfully, but maybe somehting is off? I'm not sure. ANyone seen this error or have any thoughts?

Thanks in advanced.

73,
Rich/KB2MOB

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Radio Freqs & Geeks BBS (21:1/219)

On 18 Aug 2021, MobbyG said the following...

Unable to set key (-2)

Based on the error it's something with the encryption key, so I am not sure where to start looking or what it could be. I installed Libcrypt successfully, but maybe somehting is off? I'm not sure. ANyone seen this error or have any thoughts?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Raspberry Pi/32)

I believe the key is located at mystic/data/ssl.cert:

pi@bbs:~/mystic/data $ ll ssl.cert
-rw------- 1 pi pi 1.8K May 28 09:30 ssl.cert

pi@bbs:~/mystic/data $ stat -c "%a %n" ssl.cert
600 ssl.cert


Make sure the permissions are set correctly, adjust if necessary:

chmod 600 ssl.cert


I'm unsure how to regenerate the file though if you can't restore it from backup. I know Mystic generated mine, just not sure how/when.


Jay

... HANGOVER: the wrath of grapes.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/17 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

On 18 Aug 2021, Warpslide said the following...

I believe the key is located at mystic/data/ssl.cert:

pi@bbs:~/mystic/data $ ll ssl.cert
-rw------- 1 pi pi 1.8K May 28 09:30 ssl.cert

pi@bbs:~/mystic/data $ stat -c "%a %n" ssl.cert
600 ssl.cert

Yep found it..

Make sure the permissions are set correctly, adjust if necessary:

chmod 600 ssl.cert

Yep, permissions were off. Changed and tried it and same error. Even tried to rename it and see if Mystic would regenerate it. It did but didn't work.

I'm unsure how to regenerate the file though if you can't restore it from backup. I know Mystic generated mine, just not sure how/when.

Thank you. Hopefully someone will have more knowledge then both of us and be able to share.


73.
Rich, KB2MOB

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Radio Freqs & Geeks BBS (21:1/219)

On 18 Aug 2021, MobbyG said the following...

Thank you. Hopefully someone will have more knowledge then both of us
and be able to share.

You can also post to the Fidonet MYSTIC echo. g00r00 who is the author of Mystic hangs out there and would probably know the answer to this.


Jay

... A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/17 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

On 19 Aug 2021, Warpslide said the following...

You can also post to the Fidonet MYSTIC echo. g00r00 who is the author
of Mystic hangs out there and would probably know the answer to this.

OK, I'll hop on a BBS with Fido and do that.

Thanks!

73.
Rich, KB2MOB

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Radio Freqs & Geeks BBS Running on a Pi400 (21:1/219)

On 19 Aug 2021, MobbyG said the following...

OK, I'll hop on a BBS with Fido and do that.

If you wanted to get on Fidonet yourself, reach out to Gregory Deyss (21:1/127) who is the net coordinator for New York State and he should be able to help you out.


Jay

... Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/17 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

On 18 Aug 2021 at 09:56p, Warpslide pondered and said...

I believe the key is located at mystic/data/ssl.cert:

I'm unsure how to regenerate the file though if you can't restore it
from backup. I know Mystic generated mine, just not sure how/when.

I understand if you delete this then restart Mystic server it will regen the key.

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 22 Aug 2021 at 04:55p, Avon pondered and said...

I understand if you delete this then restart Mystic server it will regen the key.

Yes Paul, that is correct.

And for future reference, g00r00 was able to diagnose the issue. I installed the beat which didn't work with Mystic. So I just grabbed 3.43 as it says on the wiki that is known to work.

So I did a sudo make clean and recompiled 3.43. Fired the BBS back up and it connected no problem. I'm back to 100% on the BBS.

73.
Rich, KB2MOB

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 23 Aug 2021 at 05:41a, mobbyg pondered and said...

Yes Paul, that is correct.

And for future reference, g00r00 was able to diagnose the issue. I installed the beat which didn't work with Mystic. So I just grabbed 3.43 as it says on the wiki that is known to work.

So I did a sudo make clean and recompiled 3.43. Fired the BBS back up
and it connected no problem. I'm back to 100% on the BBS.

Good news Rich, thanks for the confirm and glad you got things working again.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)