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Re: SSH and Cygwin 1.1.6


The only thing that would make a difference on my machine would be
uncommenting the "#HostKey /etc/ssh_host_key" line in my /etc/sshd_config.
Since I did a new install, there were no files in /usr/local/etc.

-ME

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To: "Erdely, Michael" <mike@erdelynet.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: SSH and Cygwin 1.1.6


> "Erdely, Michael" <mike@erdelynet.com> writes:
>
> > I've been getting a lot of personal emails regarding this problem.
> > I've experienced it too with my Windows 2000 Server/Pro machines running
a
> > fresh install of Cygwin with the 1.1.6 DLL and OpenSSH 2.3.0p1-1 running
> > under INETD as the System account.  I get the stack dump and the Dr.
Watson
> > errors.  Installing Cygwin 1.1.5 fixes the problem every time.
> >
> > Corinna, in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01369.html,
asked
> > for more info, but I haven't had time to provide it.  Since I'm up and
> > running with the 1.1.5 DLL, I haven't been too pressed to look into it
> > further.
>
> Corinna wrote:
>
> > No. More input. The stack trace isn't too instructive. You should
> > debug that problem by starting `sshd -d' on the command line.
> > and on the client side `ssh -v localhost'. This might give you a hint.
> > The first line in the exceptionoutput is strange:
>
> So I have this problem too.  I stopped the inetd service, ran
> /usr/sbin/sshd -d, discovered that at some point the relevant files
> should have been moved from /usr/local/etc to /etc, moved them,
> connection works fine.
>
> Restarted inetd, tried to connect, same crash.
>
> Rebooted, in case inetd had somehow preserved some state, that works.
>
> So, fix is to
>
> > cp /usr/local/etc/*ssh* /etc
>
> and reboot.
>
> ht
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