sshd error - Could not load host key

[zs]

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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