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Re: sshd error - Could not load host key


Hi,

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.

Zbigniew


Very often this is caused by a permissions problem -- sshd won't use private keys if group or other have read write or execute access to them. Applies to both user and host keys. You may need to restart the sshd service after you've fixed the permissions, which you can do by typing:


net stop sshd
net start sshd

HTH

Jay


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