X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 16:20:35 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" Message-ID: <20110206152035.GB790@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <19790.3413.953737.283323@consult.pretender> <19790.3933.747842.759650@consult.pretender> <20110206100957.GB29603@calimero.vinschen.de> <19790.46345.325392.221706@consult.pretender> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19790.46345.325392.221706@consult.pretender> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 On Feb 6 09:49, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 11:09:57 +0100 on Sunday, February 6, 2011: > > sshd tries to load this key by default, but it's missing in your setup, > > that's why you get a warning from sshd. > > > > Re-run the latest ssh-host-config script from the openssh-5.8p1 > > package. You'll see a line like > > > > *** Info: Generating /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key > > > I ran it on 3 new, fresh, blank installs and in all cases it only > generated the usual 3-key pairs: > ssh_host_key > ssh_host_rsa_key > ssh_host_dsa_key > > So perhaps the problem is that ssh-host-config is not generating the > new key. > By the way, I was using 5.7p1-1 which was up to date as of late last > week. Maybe that's why I explicitely wrote to use "the latest ssh-host-config script from the openssh-5.8p1 package"... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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