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Subject: Re: cygwin server sends the same key fingerprint all the time
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Soumya wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I have cygwin 1.74 server running on Windows 2000. I connect to this

What on Earth is "cygwin 1.74 server"?

> server programmatically (using sshtools java API that supports OpenSSH)
> to execute secure ftp.
>  I created public/private key pair, appended the public key (converted
> to openSSH) authorized_keys and authorized_keys1 on server.
>  Everything worked fine. I was asked "Do you want to accept this key ?"
> the first time and the known_hosts file was written and subsequent
> connections went without interruptions.
>  I am trying to use new keys and paste my public key to known_hosts on
> the client, so that even on the first connection, the prompt wouldn't
> appear.
>  At this time, I realised that whatever new key I append to the servers
> authorized_keys files and whatever private key file I use on the client,
> the server (remote) sends in the SAME key fingerprint every time. I even
> erased everything from authorized_keys files and tried connection, I
> still get a key fingerprint and if I accept it, it is written to
> client's known_hosts.
>
>  Doesn't this mean that cygwin is not loading my new keys and that the
> previous key is stored somewhere else which I do not know ? I restart
> the server every time I append a key ( cygrunsrv --start sshd ).

One WAG: do you actually *stop* sshd before you "restart" it?  If the sshd
service is running, "cygrunsrv --start sshd" does nothing and makes it
look like it succeeds.

But we can't really help you until you follow all the directions here:
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
	Igor
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