Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have the full installation of Cygwin on my XP machine and want to
> get sshd to install as a service (easy) on an alternate port (hard).
>
> When I tried via /usr/sbin/sshd -p 8001 I get:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/sshd -p 8001
> 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 tried www.google and groups.google but cannot find a good answer.
>
> Thanks for any insight/feedback/help.
Edit /etc/sshd_config, just set Port to 8001.
Install sshd as a service following the documentation in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. This is the main part you are missing
above.
HTH
--
René Berber
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