On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, greenspan wrote: > Larry, thanks for your reply. I am using windows 7. I've tried changing > ownership of /var/empty to cyg_server, but this doesn't help. > > FYI my "Fix" only worked for a day before failing again. Now I'm back to > square one.
FWIW I was struggling with setting up ssh on a heterogeneous set of boxes and all the while I was thinking I had sshd messed up but I think turned out that the uids on the files in .ssh were inconsistent. A recursive chown on the .ssh dir and locking the dir/file perms down to 700/600 solved a heap of problems for me. The one sshd thing that bit me was DNS, but I set UseDNS no in /etc/sshd_config and cleared that up as well. One of the mantras that it helps to repeat is that "ssh on Cygwin works" so it's a matter of making sure yourenvironment is right: - valid uid/USERNAME/HOME in /etc/passwd - .ssh is in $HOME and chown $USERNAME and chmod 700 - all files in .ssh are chown $USERNAME and chmod 600 (not strictly necessary, but removes doubt) - public keys from foreign boxes stashed away properly in .ssh/authorized_keys HTH, George -- 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
