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Re: sshd error - Could not load host key
Chris Croughton said the following:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:57:19 +0200, zs
<admin@szalbot.homedns.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).
This is the strange part. You see I had it working correctly. However,
one day I decided to wipe out my cygwin installation and start afresh.
The problem was that when I installed cygwin again, and then later ssh,
I did not get all the questions which were asked with the first
installation. It only asked about privilage separation. I have had this
problem ever since.
I tried various things but to no avail. I have reinstalled ssh a few
times and have run both ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config. Nothing has
helped.
Many thanks for your hints.
Zbigniew
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