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sshd install troubles


Hi all -

I've installed Cygwin and sshd at least a half dozen times, but for some reason, I'm having a time of it now.

I have a fresh Windows XP install that belongs to a domain. I install the latest Cygwin (1.3.14-1) from right off of www.cygwin.com. I select openssh (3.4p1-5) and cygrunsrv (0.95-1) and leave all of the other pkgs as-is.

(btw, I might suggest cygrunsrv as a package dependency for openssh. I'd be glad to submit a patch, but it seems like a bit of overkill to do so)

I set up the CYGWIN system environment var as "binmode tty ntsec". I did a
mkpasswd -d -u mydomainlogin >> /etc/passwd
and
mkgroup -d >> /etc/group

Then I ran ssh-host-config. Answered yes to privelige separation, told it to create sshd user, told it to install as a service, let it use the defaults for the CYGWIN environment var and that was about it.

Unfortunately, the service won't start. I get a Win32 error 1062. I've searched the archives, but found nothing relevant. The event log has errors, but nothing that seems worthy of reporting here. There's nothing in /var/log, either. When I try to run /usr/sbin/sshd from bash, I get

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 tried setting permissions on the above files to 666, which works but then I get a problem with permissions on /var/empty. I've tried dozens of combinations of users, groups, and permissions on /var/empty to no avail. Plus, it seems like a Really Bad Idea to have those files as 666.

Can anyone suggest a course of action? I'd be glad to submit a patch. I'm not sure where to start, however. Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks!
--
Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org
http://www.dufair.org/
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
-- Beckett


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