On 11/4/2011 08:58, gabier wrote: > Ken Brown-6 wrote: >> >> On 11/4/2011 8:17 AM, gabier wrote: >>> >>> Hi everybody, >>> First post here, I am a Cygwin newbie. I try to implement ssh >>> connectivity >>> between my Windows 7 desktop and a FreeBSD/FreeNAS server. >>> Openssh shell commands seem to work, but sshd is not running and thus >>> network commands issued from the server abort because of connection >>> refused. >>> The sshd windows service is automatically started at windows startup, but >>> it >>> is not running. If I start the service by Windows command, it starts and >>> stops immediately (Windows saying). >>> >>> If I start it at the command line with ssh I tried 2 ways >>> >>> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe >>> /etc/sshd_config: No such file or directory >>> >>> $cygrunsrv --start sshd >>> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: OpenService: Win32 error 5: >>> Accès refusé. >>> >>> I searched this forum but I am lost in the variety of parameters and >>> reasons >>> of not working, as well as different versions. >>> In fact I downloaded the cygwin setup, and installed the default >>> packages, >>> and afterwards I installed the openssh package (5.9). >>> What is to be done in order to debug this problem ? Is sshd simply >>> lacking a >>> sshd_config file ? Then how to build it ? >> >> Did you run /usr/bin/ssh-host-config ? > > No, I had not. I did not know I had to. > Well, I ran it, but it asks me if I want privileged separation or not. I > searched a little on internet to know what this is. It seems a good > architecture, but I am feared that being rather new it introduces new > problems. Does it work well now and is there a manual or how to in this > context ? If I choose NO, is it dangerous but more simple ?
Privilege separation has been around for years now, so there's no risk with using it, really. Unless you know better, you should take all the defaults provided by ssh-host-config. You can always run it again later to change something. -Jeremy -- 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
