>On Jun 7 17:46, Marilo wrote: >> after some fiddling with ssh.. removing the service, removing keys, >> re-running ssh-host-config, I got this >error >> >> harvey@samsung350 ~ >> $ tail /var/log/sshd.log >> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >> @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ >> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >> Permissions 0670 for '/etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key' are too open. >> It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. >> This private key will be ignored. >> bad permissions: ignore key: /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key >> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key >> Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key >> sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting. >> >> >> So I tried changing the file's permissions but I can't seem to change them >> >> harvey@samsung350 ~ >> $ ls -l /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key >> -rw-rwx---+ 1 cyg_server root 411 Jun 7 17:23 /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key >> >> harvey@samsung350 ~ >> $ chmod 600 /etc/ssh_* >> >> harvey@samsung350 ~ >> $ ls -l /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key >> -rw-rwx---+ 1 cyg_server root 411 Jun 7 17:23 /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key
>Note the extra permissions indicated by the trailing '+'. Try >`setfacl -b /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key'. >Corinna Thanks.. I reinstalled cygwin so as to update setfacl to include -b and then ran that command and then ssh works. -- 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