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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:28:41 +0200
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Thank you very much for your reply.

Brian Dessent wrote:

>a12 wrote:
>
>  
>
>>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README states:
>>If you start sshd as deamon via cygrunsrv.exe you MUST give the
>>"-D" option to sshd. Otherwise the service can't get started at all.
>>    
>>
>
>That isn't telling to you use -D on the cygrunsrv command line
>directly.  It means that the sshd arguments should contain that
>parameter.  I.e. you must include -D in the setting of the -a parameter,
>such as "cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "CYGWIN sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a -D"  -D
>is not a cygrunsrv option, it is the predicate of the -a option.
>
>  
>
>>ssh_host_*_key.pub are owned by the user that has run ssh-host-config
>>Is it OK ?
>>    
>>
>
>If you ran the above commands they should be owned by SYSTEM.  The idea
>here is that those files contain the private half of the host's
>public/private keypair, and this is sensitive data.  So the file should
>be readable only by the account that runs the ssh daemon.  If you are
>the only local user then it doesn't really matter much as you can be
>trusted, but on an actual multiuser posix system you would want to
>restrict the host key files accordingly.
>
>Brian
>
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