Hi Daniel Thanks for that info. Maybe you're right. I gave to admit it's very weird to start with but I'll give it a go and let you know the outcome.
Regards Max > On 12 Mar 2015, at 2:44 am, Daniel <dan...@boland.nl> wrote: > > Hi Max, > > Max Rockliff wrote: >> Hey Corinna, >> You're a magician. It seems to have fixed the problem, or at least provided >> an effective workaround. Here's a transcript (kinda) >> 1. Downloaded the new cygwin1-20150311.dll.xz (PS. Kudos for using a >> yyyymmdd format in the name - I always do, but so many don't >> 2. Copied the xz file to my privileged user account home folder and Unxz'ed >> it. >> 3. Used Windows to copy the file cygwin1-20150311.dll to the C:\cygwin\bin >> folder >> 4. Stopped the SSHD service >> 5. Renamed the old cygwin1.dll to cygwin1.dll.old >> 6. Renamed cygwin1-20150311.dll to cygwin1.dll >> 7. Started the SSHD service >> 8. Started the terminal >> 9. Executed ssh st@localhost and it logged on successfully no errors. >> Max@Max-PC /bin >> $ ssh st@localhost >> st@localhost's password: >> Last login: Wed Mar 11 20:32:00 2015 from ::1 >> st@Max-PC ~ >> $ >> 10. And, as we like to say in Australia - Sweet! > > I noticed that you are initially logged on as a user, named "Max" on a host, > named "Max-PC". > > I teach kids Linux using Cygwin and many of them, being gamers, name their > computers after themselves, so they can be recognized on a network. > > Having seen this over and over on their laptops, I can now say with 100% > certainty that this causes the "/" and "/etc" folders to be installed with > group-writable permissions. > > Normally I wouldn't bother, but I make them compile Sendmail as part of a > series of lessons. Sendmail doesn't like group-writable folders and refuses > to send mail. > > This problem occurs on Win7, Win8, and Win8.1 with the following > username/hostname combinations: "Jony@Jony", "Kjell@Kjell-PC". The way we > solve this is: > > chgrp Users / /etc > chmod g-w / /etc > > Chmod alone doesn't work. We first have to change the group owner of the > folders for chmod to be effective. > > Maybe this phenomenon is unrelated to your sshd problem, but when I saw your > user/host combination I felt the need to share this with you and the group. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
