Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: smtp2.ihug.co.nz: Host animal.ihug.co.nz [203.29.161.168] claimed to be ihug.co.nz Message-ID: <3A0AFF99.121F5DE2@ihug.co.nz> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:48:41 +1300 From: Ross Smith Organization: Ihug X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: Updated: OpenSSH-2.3.0p1 References: <3A098DFB.ABA115D2@redhat.com> <3A0A37A2.1D15A3FC@ihug.co.nz> <3A0A78F7.61B31E88@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Ross Smith wrote: > > I tried sshd -d as you suggested to Richard; I have no idea what any of > > this means but presumably it will tell you something: > > > > > /usr/sbin$ ./sshd.exe -d > > > debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1 > > > debug1: Seeding random number generator > > > error: Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key: No such file or directory > > "/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key". Take a look into your /etc/sshd_config > file. There is probably a line > > HostKey /usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key > > Comment it with `#' or remove the line or change it to > > HostKey /etc/ssh_host_key > > Your sshd_config file is from an older version. The older > `ssh-config' created the above HostKey line pointing to > /usr/local/etc by mistake. Thank you! It works fine now, and I'm kicking myself (or would be if I was feeling a bit more limber) because I did read your note about moving ssh out of /usr/local and it should have occurred to me to check the config files for explicit paths. Apologies for my stupidity. -- Ross Smith The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand ======================================================================== "C++ is to programming as sex is to reproduction. Better ways might technically exist but they're not nearly as much fun." -- Nikolai Irgens -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com