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Subject: Re: sshd error - Could not load host key
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Chris Croughton wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:57:19 +0200, zs 
>    <admin AT szalbot DOT homedns DOT org> wrote:
> 
>> I was trying to start sshd with cygwin under windows.
>>
>> I am getting the following error but the specified files exist in the 
>> /etc dir. What else could be a problem here? Thanks a lot for your input!
>>
>> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
>> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_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.
> 
> I've had this recently!  I solved it by running (or possibly rerunning)
> ssh-host-config.  I'm not sure what that does differently from just
> setting up the config files in /etc (I can't find a man or info page on
> my system for it), but it seems to work (I know that if you answer it
> correctly it will set it up as a server, so something presumably tweaks
> the Registry; there are also questions about setting up a special user
> under Windows for sshd and things which need administrative privileges).
> 
> Doing a Google for "howto cygwin sshd" (without the quotes) gives a
> number of places where people have written about it, including some
> specifics for Win2k, XPPro and 2003Server.


All Cygwin packages come with Cygwin-specific READMEs in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin or /usr/doc/Cygwin.  You'll find installation
notes, among other things there.  For OpenSSH, you'll find it
mentions the installation scripts ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config.
These are the recommended installation scripts.  Using anything else
is likely to lead to a broken installation.


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