sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:18:00 -0500

While setting up WSL on my Thinkpad T480, I know I don’t normally Windows but I keep running into firmware and drivers. So I decided to switch back to Windows for a bit. While setting up WSL, I wanted to able to SSH into my laptop and run commands on it. I was able to do this by installing the WSL SSH server but I ran into a problem when trying to start the SSH server.

Error:

mmattox@a0wnhammerp01:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/service ssh start
 * Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server sshd
 sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting. [fail]
mmattox@a0wnhammerp01:

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sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting