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Re: 1.7.7: after upgrade lost ability to login via ssh


On Feb  9 11:34, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 05:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb  8 21:14, Gerry Reno wrote:
> >   
> >> Something else I just discovered after upgrading to 1.7.7 is that I now
> >> have lost the ability to login via ssh.
> >>
> >> I have OpenSSH installed and running sshd as a service.  Both password
> >> and keys accepted.  But now neither means will work.
> >>
> >>     # ssh -i keypair1.pem   Administrator@MACHINE_IP
> >>     Last login: Fri Feb  4 17:19:26 2011 from LOCAL_CLIENT_MACHINE
> >>     Connection to MACHINE_IP closed.
> >>
> >>
> >> So I increased verbosity but did not see anything obvious.
> >>     
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00236.html
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> >
> >   
> 
> Looking around the only thing I can find is in the /var/log/sshd.log:
> 
>     Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
>     Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
>     Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
> 
> 
> Not sure this is related to the login problem.

No.  It's just a message.

> What is a ecdsa key?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-01/msg00016.html

>   How do you generate it?

$ man ssh-keygen


Corinna

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