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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:04:01 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@cygnus.com>
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To: James Dumser <dumser@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] OpenSSH-2.1.1p4 for Cygwin 1.1.3
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James Dumser wrote:
> Am I misremembering or is there
> another reason your publishing on ftp.franken.de?

Crypto export restriction, RSA patent etc.
OpenSSH will be released on sources.redhat.com perhaps next year.

> >From your README:
> > - If you are installing OpenSSH the first time, you can generate
> >   server keys and your own user keys by running
> >
> >          /usr/local/bin/ssh-config
> 
> Actually, it's not the first time; but it wasn't working before. I
> removed /usr/local/etc/ssh_host* files, renamed my ~/.ssh, and ran
> ssh-config. BTW, it would be nice if ssh-config created ~/.ssh if it
> didn't exist.

ssh-keygen creates .ssh by itself.

> inetd runs as the SYSTEM account. Your note (and my knowledge of NT) is
> not clear if SYSTEM already has the necessary permissions or not. I

SYSTEM has all necessary rights. I thought this would be clear.

> When I try to ssh to itself, I get
>   debug: ssh_exchange_identification: sshd: no hostkeys available --
>          exiting.

From the sources I can see exactliy three possible reasons:
- v1.X protocol: Problem with rsa.
- v1.X protocol: No ssh_host_key file.
- v2 protocol: No ssh_dsa_host_key file.

Try `sshd -d' from the command line. This might give you a hint.

Corinna

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