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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:46:52 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: FAQ entry for "The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started"
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"Van Zandt, Jim" wrote:

>    In that case, simply fix the ownership and/or permissions of those
> files:
> 
>    chown SYSTEM.Users /etc/ssh_host*
>    chmod 600 /etc/ssh*key
>    chmod 644 /etc/ssh*pub

All of this is taken care of for you automatically by ssh-host-config,
so this implies that you did not run the script.  There should never be
a need to touch these files manually, so this would be a very bad thing
to have in any FAQ.  If users don't know to run ssh-host-config then
*that* needs to be in the FAQ, but not this.

Brian

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