X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44DE2894.2080808@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:14:28 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd error - Could not load host key References: <44DDA5FF.30305@szalbot.homedns.org> <44DE275E.9020609@szalbot.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <44DE275E.9020609@szalbot.homedns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com zs wrote: > Chris Croughton said the following: >> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:57:19 +0200, zs >> wrote: >> >> >>> I was trying to start sshd with cygwin under windows. >>> >>> I am getting the following error but the specified files exist in the >>> /etc dir. What else could be a problem here? Thanks a lot for your >>> input! >>> >>> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key >>> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key >>> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key >>> Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key >>> Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key >>> sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting. >>> >> >> I've had this recently! I solved it by running (or possibly rerunning) >> ssh-host-config. I'm not sure what that does differently from just >> setting up the config files in /etc (I can't find a man or info page on >> my system for it), but it seems to work (I know that if you answer it >> correctly it will set it up as a server, so something presumably tweaks >> the Registry; there are also questions about setting up a special user >> under Windows for sshd and things which need administrative privileges). >> > This is the strange part. You see I had it working correctly. However, > one day I decided to wipe out my cygwin installation and start afresh. > The problem was that when I installed cygwin again, and then later ssh, > I did not get all the questions which were asked with the first > installation. It only asked about privilage separation. I have had this > problem ever since. > > I tried various things but to no avail. I have reinstalled ssh a few > times and have run both ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config. Nothing has > helped. Well then let's start with the obvious. Do these files exist? What happens when you delete them and run the config scripts? Do you have other ssh software installed that's not Cygwin? If these clues and ideas aren't enough to help you solve the problem, I'd recommend reading and following the problem reporting guidelines found here: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/