"Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key"
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
cygwin@kosowsky.org
Sun Feb 6 03:03:00 GMT 2011
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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