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... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple