On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 snip >>> /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
Um, after looking at application messages, I found messages that indicated that sshd was actually running. After a reboot, ps -W | grep ssh confirmed that. ssh localhost works. But in services, sshd is not listed as running. To summarize: I have sshd installed as a service, set to log in as .\cyg_server. (I had to do that manually, after ssh-host-config). I also manually had to fix the read-write permissions to 600. Things seem to work now. Thank you Corinna and Larry for reading and replying. 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
