RE: Updated: OpenSSH-2.3.0p1

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

Hi Richard,

Are you sure this has nothing to do with the "important change" Corinna
mentioned?

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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At 11:25 AM 11/8/2000, Richard Stanton wrote:
>Could you maybe elaborate on exactly what steps needs to be taken to upgrade
>to the new SSHD? I just updated, and now when I try to connect to my machine
>using SSH (which worked fine until 10 minutes ago) here's what happens:
>
>[c:\]ssh -v mortgage
>SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
>Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f).
>debug: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
>debug: Applying options for *
>debug: Seeding random number generator
>debug: ssh_connect: getuid 1001 geteuid 1001 anon 0
>debug: Connecting to mortgage [128.32.75.82] port 22.
>debug: Seeding random number generator
>debug: Allocated local port 633.
>debug: Connection established.
>debug: ssh_exchange_identification: sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
>
>ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>debug: Calling cleanup 0x414cf0(0x0)
>
>I'm hoping I'm not the only one in this position, but I can't work out how
>to translate the message below into actual steps I need to take to get SSHD
>working again...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-announce-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-announce-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Corinna
> > Vinschen
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:14 AM
> > To: cygann
> > Subject: Updated: OpenSSH-2.3.0p1
> >
> >
> > I've updated the version of OpenSSH in cygwin/latest to 2.3.0p1
> > which has been released yesterday.
> >
> > ==================================================================
> > =========
> > Important change since 2.3.0p1:
> >
> > When using `ntea' or `ntsec' you now have to care for the ownership
> > and permission bits of your host key files and your private key files.
> > The host key files have to be owned by the NT account which starts
> > sshd. The user key files have to be owned by the user. The permission
> > bits of the private key files (host and user) have to be at least
> > rw------- (0600)!
> >
> > Note that this is forced under `ntsec' only if the files are on a NTFS
> > filesystem (which is recommended) due to the lack of any basic security
> > features of the FAT/FAT32 filesystems.
> >
> > This new behaviour was requested by the OpenSSH maintainers to
> > keep OpenSSH as save as possible in the particular environment.
> > ==================================================================
> > =========
> >
> > To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
> > the http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin web page.  This downloads setup.exe
> > to your system.
> >
> > Run setup and answer all of the questions.  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
> > choose a mirror site for your download.  The 'sources.redhat.com' site
> > is badly overloaded.  The mirrors below have the latest version of
> > this package:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/ (US)
> > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus
> > (Germany)
> > ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/ (UK)
> >
> > Note that if this is the first time that you've run the new GUI version
> > of setup, it will currently download the whole cygwin net release again.
> > After this point it will only download what is needed.
> >
> > If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
> > mailing list at:  cygwin@sources.redhat.com .  I would appreciate
> > if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly.
> > This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin
> > in general.
> >
> > If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
> > the appropriate place.
> >
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> >
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> > --
> > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
> > Cygwin Developer                        mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> > Red Hat, Inc.
> > mailto:vinschen@cygnus.com
> >
> >
> >
>
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