On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On Mar 17 10:10, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I >> reinstalled cygwin64 (because of the new user and password handling, I >> figured that to be easiest). >> >> I still cannot get sshd to run. I get an error message: >> >/usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d >> debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_6.7, OpenSSL 1.0.1k 8 Jan 2015 >> debug1: private host key: #0 type 1 RSA >> debug1: private host key: #1 type 2 DSA >> debug1: private host key: #2 type 3 ECDSA >> debug1: private host key: #3 type 4 ED25519 >> /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. >> >> Here is what /var/empty looks like (I obfuscated the machine name part) >> >ls -lrd /var/empty >> drw-------+ 1 XXXXXXXXXX+cyg_server Administrators 0 Feb 25 09:41 /var/empty/ >> >> There is no root user on my machine. Should I create it? > > No. The "must be owned by root" in sshd is the original upstream error > message. The test leading to the message on the other hand is tweaked > for Cygwin to test if the /var/empty file is owned by the user running > sshd. So, if you run sshd from the command line, it refuses to run if > /var/empty isn't owned by your current user account. If you're running > sshd as service from the XXXXXXXXXX+cyg_server account, /var/empty must > be owned by the XXXXXXXXXX+cyg_server account. > > Does that help? > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat
(Good news, bad news) Good news: I can start sshd as a user, and ssh to localhost. In bash ran as administrator: - >chown myself /var/empty - >/usr/bin/sshd -d In another bash: ->ssh localhost. works Bad news: sshd cannot start as service (after I revert the /var/empty/ ownership as before). I start it manually under windows services, it starts and then stops. So it seems that it does log in. In /var/log/sshd.log, I see again: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable I do not see a login failure in the event manager. When I look in services, sshd is set to log in as a Local System Account. Changing to .\cyg_server does not help. I don't want to bore you with the details, in case I am going the wrong way, but should sshd log in as a local service (the initial setting), cyg_server, or sshd? (I set the parameters to sshd to -d in the services, but I did not see any output in sshd.log). Thank you Mirko -- 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
