On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:18:57AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: >On 11/15/2010 11:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Nov 13 10:00, Ken Brown wrote: >>> On 11/5/2010 8:03 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >>>> If I start sshd on a machine running a recent snapshot, I'm unable to >>>> login to that machine via ssh. The connection is closed right after I >>>> type my password. The problem first appears in the snapshot of >>>> 20100917. To reproduce: >>>> >>>> 1. Start sshd. >>>> >>>> 2. While logged in as one user, try to login as another user. For example: >>>> >>>> $ ssh kbrown-ad...@localhost >>>> kbrown-ad...@localhost's password: >>>> Connection to localhost closed by remote host. >>>> Connection to localhost closed. >>>> >>>> The same thing happens if I try to ssh in from a different machine on >>>> the network. >>> >>> Further information: There are two entries in the Windows Event >>> Viewer (Application Log) after the failed login: >>> >>> sshd: PID 2264: Accepted password for kbrown-admin from ::1 port 1025 ssh2. >>> >>> sshd: PID 2264: fatal: chmod(/dev/tty1, 0622) failed: Permission denied. >> >> Hmm, that's weird. I'm using the latest Cygwin from CVS, and I cannot >> reproduce this. I tried to login from a remote machine with pubkey and >> password authentication using an admin account as well as a normal user >> account. Works fine for me in all these cases. >> >> I can't quite believe it, but maybe that's OS related. I'm running my >> tests on W7 in the first place. What OS are you using? > >XP SP3.
FWIW, I couldn't duplicate this on XP SP3 but my ssh installation was a little nonstandard. I ended up breaking ssh entirely over the weekend so I'm looking for a random helpful blog to help me diagnose the problem. But, seriously, I'll check this as soon as I get things back to a running state. cgf -- 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
