Changing the sshd service to run as localsystem rather than cyg_server
allows me to again ssh into the machine.

Thanks for everyone on this mailing list - I spent hours trying to figure
this out - and because the list doesn't seem to get indexed by google, the
web searches I was doing were of no help.

Looking forward to a newer version of openssh...

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 1:20 PM Cary Lewis <cary.le...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m seeing a similar issue. Will try using localsystem.
>
> > On Feb 21, 2019, at 6:43 AM, Houder <hou...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:09:11, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> >>
> >> I managed it today already but I'm somewhat stumped.
> >>
> >> I ran ssh-host-config and let the script install a new local account
> >> "test_server" to use for the sshd service.  I started the service and
> >> tried to login with a local account and it just worked out of the box.
> >
> > This is my case: using local accounts only.
> >
> > Reminder: sshd did work w/ 2.11.2 ...
> > (and it works now in 3.0.1 after replacing cyg_server w/ SYSTEM (*) )
> >
> > Way back I started using cyg_server because "csih" forced me to create
> > this privileged account (W7!).
> >
> > I studied "csih" (cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh) again ...
> >
> > 64-@@# editrights -u cyg_server -l
> > SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege
> > SeCreateTokenPrivilege
> > SeServiceLogonRight
> > SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight
> > SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight
> >
> > Compared to "csih", the SeTcbPrivilege privilege was missing. I am not
> > in the habit of messing with privileges ...
> >
> > Consequently, like you, I am stumped too :-)
> >
> > (*) after "moving" the sshd service from cyg_server to SYSTEM, I also
> > changed the ownership of /var/empty and /etc/ssh* (to SYSTEM) ...
> >
> > Next, I disabled the cyg_server and sshd accounts. ssh still works.
> >
> > Henri
> >
> >
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