X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,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: <19792.1878.208459.649030@consult.pretender> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:53:10 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key" In-reply-to: <20110206152035.GB790@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <19790.3413.953737.283323@consult.pretender> <19790.3933.747842.759650@consult.pretender> <20110206100957.GB29603@calimero.vinschen.de> <19790.46345.325392.221706@consult.pretender> <20110206152035.GB790@calimero.vinschen.de> 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote at about 16:20:35 +0100 on Sunday, February 6, 2011: > 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"... Gotya! Thanks -- I hadn't realized it was updated in the last couple of days. That worked... -- 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