From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29822 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 2011 20:20:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 29813 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Feb 2011 20:20:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:20:09 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoLwq-0005wd-89 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:20:04 +0100 Received: from nglee.plus.com ([81.174.149.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:20:04 +0100 Received: from andrew by nglee.plus.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:20:04 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Ng Subject: Re: OpenSSH-5.8p1-1 Connection Problems Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <4D567D8C.80001@nglee.co.uk> <20110212141652.GA5682@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00328.txt.bz2 > As usual the logs only show what happens, but they don't show why. > > I installed OpenSSH-5.8p1 on Windows 7 64 bit. I tried to connect from > 32 and 64 bit Cygwin machines using ssh 5.8p1 and I tried it from a > Linux machine with ssh 5.5p1. No problems at all. I removed the ECDSA > host key to get the same "Can't load host key" message... still no > problems at all. > > What about deleting and reinstalling sshd as a service? Maybe that > helps. > > $ cygrunsrv -E sshd > $ cygrunsrv -R sshd > $ cd /etc > $ mkdir OLD-KEYS > $ mv ssh_host* OLD-KEYS > $ rmdir /var/empty > $ rm -f /var/log/sshd.log > $ ssh-host-config > $ mv OLD-KEYS/* . > $ chown cyg_server ssh_host* > $ cygrunsrv -S sshd > > Corinna Unfortunately, that isn't really going to help with my connection problems to Solaris systems which also work fine with 5.6. I am connecting through VPN using Juniper Networks Network Connect. I wonder if that's what might be causing issues for 5.8. But I guess it really shouldn't make any difference. I will try to investigate a bit further. Thanks. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple