Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: sshd.log permissions error message MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: From: Mike DOT P DOT Smith AT kp DOT org Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:30:32 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello All, I recently installed Cygwin v1.3.15-2 on a NT4 server with sp6a. I installed the sshd service by using the Cygwin "ssh-host-config -y" command. I changed the permissions, ownership, and groups of /usr/bin/ssh, /usr/sbin/sshd, and /var/empty to 1755 SYSTEM.SYSTEM. The /etc/ssh_h*_key files were changed to 1600 and SYSTEM.SYSTEM. The /etc/ssh_h*.pub files were changed to 1644 and SYSTEM.SYSTEM. I have got the point where my sshd service starts with no errors in the windows event viewer and I can log into by box via ssh. However I still get the following error message in /var/log/sshd.log file. Permissions 0755 for '/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key' are too open. It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. This private key will be ignored. bad permissions: ignore key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_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. Bad owner or mode for /var/empty I have read a few older posts that state changing the permissions on the above files would fix the problem. I believe that I have done that. Can someone please point me in the right direction so that I can get rid of this message? I can use the service okay, but I would really like to get a functional sshd log. Below is a partial output of cygcheck -s. CYGWIN = `ntsec tty notitle glob' HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Administrator' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/home/Administrator' USER = `Administrator' Use `-r' to scan registry a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 2047Mb 12% CP CS UN PA FC OCHC d: hd NTFS 15453Mb 15% CP CS UN PA FC OCHD g: cd N/A N/A r: hd NTFS 219921Mb 2% CP CS UN PA FC OCHR C:\cygwin / system binmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive Thank you for your time, Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/