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openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service
- From: "Pablo Milano" <pablo dot milano at datatransfer dot com dot ar>
- To: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:13:36 -0300
- Subject: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service
- Reply-to: <pablo dot milano at datatransfer dot com dot ar>
I upgraded to openssh 3.4p1-4, and after installing it, I get the following
error when trying to start the openssh service:
***********************************************************
The CYGWIN sshd service is starting.
The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started.
The service did not report an error.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534
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I tried removing the service with cygrunsrv.exe -R sshd and then re-running
ssh-host-config, bit I got the same error.
I tried also uninstalling and re-installing the packages and even removing
all cygwin entries from the registry, but I couldn't succeed.
Any hints?
-----Mensaje original-----
De: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
Enviado el: Viernes, 26 de Julio de 2002 15:42
Para: pablo.milano@datatransfer.com.ar; cygwin@cygwin.com
Asunto: Re: Openssh 3.0.2-p15: Can't validate public key when accesing
from cron
Pablo Milano wrote:
>> I am using Cygwin with openssh 3.0.2p1-5 and openssl 0.9.6c-2
>> The sshd is running in a windows 2000 server computer.
>> I use rsa keys to authenticate the users who access the ssh server
>> from linux machines (kernel 2.4.18).
>> Authentication works fine if the "ssh -i user.key user@server" is
>> run from a linux console, but it fails if the same command is run
>> from cron. The following error is returned to the standard error
>> console: "Host key verification failed."
>>
>> This happens only when trying to connect to the cygwin ssh server.
>> It works fine among linux servers.
>> Any hint?
1. Upgrade openssh - 3.0.x is: a) ancient, b) known to have security
problems.
2. The problem is likely to be that the server's host key is not in the ssh
known_hosts file for the user that cron is running ssh as. Since ssh is
running
non-interatively, it can't prompt 'Do you wat to trust this host key?'.
Max.
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