ssh broken after updating cygwin

Mark Geisert mark@maxrnd.com
Fri Aug 30 09:39:14 GMT 2024


On 8/29/2024 6:10 PM, Lee via Cygwin wrote:
> OK.. I didn't read the release notes.  If I knew the upgrade was going
> to break ssh I wouldn't have upgraded, but hopefully there's a
> work-around besides downgrading.
> 
> This used to work:
> $ ssh 10.10.2.4
> /home/Lee/.ssh/config line 22: Bad key types '+ssh-dss'.
> /home/Lee/.ssh/config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options

You don't have to downgrade openssh to the version you had previously. 
It should be enough to just downgrade one version step, to 9.7p1-1 .
You'll have to remember to 'keep' that openssh version every time you 
use setup.exe from now on. That's a pain, but works for me. YMMV.

..mark



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