X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-id: <19790.3933.747842.759650@consult.pretender> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:02:53 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" In-reply-to: <19790.3413.953737.283323@consult.pretender> References: <19790.3413.953737.283323@consult.pretender> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 21:54:13 -0500 on Saturday, February 5, 2011: > Just loaded a fresh version of Cygwin-1.7 on a new machine and ran > ssh-host-config without any problems. > > However it keeps failing to start up. > The log shows: > Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key > > The config file /etc/sshd_config has the lines: > #HostKey /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key > #HostKey /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key > > This seems quite wrong - both to have the repeated lines and to have > the name 'ecdsa' rather than just straight 'dsa' > Correction it does start up (my problem was that /var/empty was not owned by 'root' which on XP seems to be 'SYSTEM') However, I still am curious to the naming and repetition of the HostKey and it still does generate errors in the log... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple