Let me start, I'm not a newb to Linux but I am no means proficent from a professional standpoint.

 

Now, with EVERY other linux or BSD based setup I have used in the past, SSH is ethier already installed or I have to install the package. It appears that SSH is already installed. After that, I just have to start a connection via 22, accept the RSA Keypair, enter username and password, boom, I'm in.

 

I cannot even get to the RSA Key section. Now I did read somewhere that I have to generate it then put it on the USB Stick manually. But i cannot find this info no matter how much I search.

 

So, how do we set this up?

Confirming that automatic key generation does work from a Terminal window on my Mac:

 

13inMBP:~ john_m$ ssh -l root northolt.local
The authenticity of host 'northolt.local (172.26.147.85)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 64:d8:8c:6e:28:4f:b6:b2:4e:15:d2:54:88:17:5f:2f.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Last login: Sat Jan 30 20:44:17 2016 from 172.26.147.92
Linux 4.1.15-unRAID.
root@Northolt:~# 

 

I wonder why similar doesn't work for you?

 

navigate to your flash drive then config/ssh/  Should be a load of keys in there.  If they are 0 bytes in size they may be corrupt.  If you delete them all they will be recreated if your reboot your array.

Sorry for just now getting back to this.

 

I examined the files on the flash drive and there were quite a few files that had nothing in them what so ever.

So, I decided to blow the drive away and re-write it.

Same Result

Downloaded unRaid again

Try again

Boom - SSH Keys and there is more actually data on the flash drive. 

My guess is that I had a bad download.