Unable to start cygwin sshd service

Question

I entered ssh-host-config into the cygwin prompt (started with admin privileges), said yes to privilege separation, new local account sshd, install sshd as a servic

Answer 1

Followed the steps provide by Andrea Solution 1 and solution 2 , it did not work. Event viewer did not provide any info.

So took a look at the log var/log/sshd.log first it complained that it was unable to load the dll:

/usr/sbin/sshd.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll

Solution:

• Reinstalled the package and ensured that the dll were in lib.

• Started the service again still it failed but this time it complained about missing host key.

  Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

Solution:

• go to the Cygwin Command prompt (with run as admin ) and
• enter ssh-keygen -A
  the missing host key were generated .

Finally I was able to start it.

I would recommend looking at the log file further if the above solution does not work.