sshd error - Could not load host key

[Jay Abel]

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Zbigniew
>

Very often this is caused by a permissions problem -- sshd won't use 
private keys if group or other have read write or execute access to 
them.  Applies to both user and host keys.  You may need to restart the 
sshd service after you've fixed the permissions, which you can do by 
typing:

net stop sshd
net start sshd

HTH

Jay


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