"Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key"

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 21:54:13 -0500 on Saturday, February 5, 2011:
 > Just loaded a fresh version of Cygwin-1.7 on a new machine and ran
 > ssh-host-config without any problems.
 > 
 > However it keeps failing to start up.
 > The log shows:
 > 	Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
 > 
 > The config file /etc/sshd_config has the lines:
 > 	#HostKey /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
 > 	#HostKey /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
 > 
 > This seems quite wrong - both to have the repeated lines and to have
 > the name 'ecdsa' rather than just straight 'dsa'
 > 

Correction it does start up (my problem was that /var/empty was not
owned by 'root' which on XP seems to be 'SYSTEM')

However, I still am curious to the naming and repetition of the
HostKey and it still does generate errors in the log...

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