Cannot log in to SSHD, either with public key or password

[Chloe <starrychloe at oliveyou dot net>]

Please help, I cannot log into Cygwin with SSH.

ssh -vvv Chloe@localhost log: http://pastebin.com/vt2aP86F

I don't know why it says
debug3: Could not load "/home/Chloe/.ssh/id_rsa" as a RSA1 public key
because I can use that key to log into a VPS.

I installed the latest ssh. I verified permissions:

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$ ls -ld . *
drw-------+ 1 Chloe None     0 May 21 19:31 .
-rw-------  1 Chloe None   395 May 21 19:31 authorized_keys
-rw-------  1 Chloe None  1638 Apr  6  2009 authorized_keys.old
-rw-------  1 Chloe None   668 Apr  6  2009 id_dsa
-rw-------  1 Chloe None   603 Apr  6  2009 id_dsa.pub
-rw-------  1 Chloe None  1675 Apr  6  2009 id_rsa
-rw-------  1 Chloe None  1464 Apr 23  2009 id_rsa.ppk
-rw-------  1 Chloe None   395 Apr  6  2009 id_rsa.pub
-rw-------  1 Chloe None   976 Apr  6  2009 identity
-rw-------  1 Chloe None   640 Apr  6  2009 identity.pub
-rw-------  1 Chloe None 12226 May 21 19:30 known_hosts
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This is the error in Application event viewer log:

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The description for Event ID 0 from source sshd cannot be found. Either 
the component that raises this event is not installed on your local 
computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the 
component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had 
to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

sshd: PID 6840: Failed password for Chloe from 127.0.0.1 port 49802 ssh2
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I've also tried
$ ssh chloe@localhost
and
$ ssh Chloe@127.0.0.1
and I've also tried Putty.

Here are non-comments in sshd_config

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$ grep -v ^\# /etc/sshd_config | grep -ve '^\s*$'
Port 22
ListenAddress 127.0.0.1
StrictModes no
AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox          # Default for new installations.
Subsystem       sftp    /usr/sbin/sftp-server
-------------------------------------------------------------

I see this in the sshd.log

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$ tail -1 /var/log/sshd.log
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
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But I don't understand why it can't open it. That's how ssh-host-config 
set it up. I had to change owner for sshd_config to myself so I could 
save my edits (ListenAddress).

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$ ls -l ssh*
-rw-r--r--  1 cyg_server root 1574 May 21 19:22 ssh_config
-rw-------  1 cyg_server root  672 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_dsa_key
-rw-r--r--  1 cyg_server root  599 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
-rw-------  1 cyg_server root  227 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_ecdsa_key
-rw-r--r--  1 cyg_server root  171 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub
-rw-------  1 cyg_server root  399 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_ed25519_key
-rw-r--r--  1 cyg_server root   91 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
-rw-------  1 cyg_server root  974 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_key
-rw-r--r--  1 cyg_server root  639 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_key.pub
-rw-------  1 cyg_server root 1675 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_rsa_key
-rw-r--r--  1 cyg_server root  391 May 21 18:19 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
-rw-------+ 1 Chloe      root 3640 May 21 20:10 sshd_config
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I checked in Task Manager and sshd is running as cyg_server.







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