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 Message-ID: <01d301c291a1$b5dfa410$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: Subject: Re: sshd.log permissions error message Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:05:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Mike DOT P DOT Smith AT kp DOT org wrote: > 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 You get 'sshd: ... exiting', but can still log in? Are you sure you are not looking at a stale log? Max. -- 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/