Stefan Lisowski <s.lisow...@isti.com> writes: > I just updated Cygwin to the latest version from one that had been > installed in maybe 2009... old. > > During the update process there was a note to go to cygwin.com to see > what had changed in the new version that might affect me, but in the > "upgrade" or the "faq" area I could find nothing warning me about > anything specific. > > I was installing this on a box 2000 miles away where I tunnel remote > desktop through ssh. Thank goodness I took down the firewall before I > rebooted, because ssh no longer worked after a reboot, and I had to > make a direct remote desktop connection to the machine before I got > ssh up and running. > > I'm sending this mail to warn other users trying to upgrade > sshd... After the upgrade I got login failures even though sshd > service was running. I Googled and Googled, but I couldn't find an > answer; port was open, ssh was up, and ssh connections worked fine > (even to the external IP) from the local cygwin ssh, but not from a > remote ssh. Logging locally didn't help, ssh -vvv remotely didn't > help. FINALLY I figured it out, it was that the USERNAMEs are now case > sensitive!!! So "administrator" fails but "Administrator" succeeds. I > read somewhere I can fix this now by going back and editing > /etc/passwd, but I haven't tried that yet; right now I'm just happy to > have my firewall back up and tunneling remote desktop through ssh > again. (I did a ssh-host-config in the process of debugging but I > don't think I needed to.) > > Since I couldn't find this answer I'm sending it now to the list, > hopefully the next person that runs into this will find it.
Interesting. I'd just always assumed that usernames have always been case sensitive. Just used to Linux more than Windows, I guess. Glad you figured it out! -- 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
