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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:37:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Jeff Smith <jeffs AT centralscheduling DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Help with broken SSH after reinstalling cygwin
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Jeff Smith wrote:

> Hi Cygwin-istas,
>
> I think I made a mistake this morning. I was making more space on my
> drive and removed cygwin (deleted c:\cygwin). After realizing my
> error, I got the latest version and installed again, effectively
> upgrading from installer 2.249.2.5 to 2.340.2.5
>
> When the install was complete, my environment was all still there
> (fortunately, I had NOT removed $HOME along with the cygwin dir).
>
> But now when I run try to run cvs (using SSH) I get this:
> $ cvs status
> cvs status: warning: unrecognized response `The system cannot find the path spec' from cvs server
> cvs [status aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
>
> And ssh-add doesn't prompt me for my passphrase like it used to. It
> just reports nothing and gives me my prompt back.
>
> I can't even tell if the problem is with SSH or CVS.
>
> I'm new to cvs, ssh and cygwin (go big or go home, right :-) so I'm not sure
> where to even start looking. It took me 3 days to get
> this set up the first time and I shudder to think what it might take
> me if I have to try and solve this cold.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Jeff,

You probably lost /etc/ssh_config, as well as the host keys (which were
also in /etc).  If you didn't customize your ssh (which I take from your
statement of newbiness to be true), simply run "ssh-user-config" to create
the default keys (as indicated in /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.6.1p1-1.README).
You also may have to teach your cvs server to recognize the new keys (or
ask your sysadmin).
	Igor
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