In addition to making sure that the SYSTEM account is in the /etc/passwd file, you can change the permissions on a few directories (or check them to make sure that they at least resemble the following)before running the ssh-host-config routine:
chown -R 544:544 /var chown -R 18:18 /var/log/sshd.log chown -R 544:544 /etc/ssh* chown 18:18 /etc/ssh_host*_key This is assuming that the SYSTEM account is mapped to UID 18 and the local Administrator account (or BuiltInAdministrator) is mapped to UID 544 and GID 544. You shouldn't have to do this with the more recent releases of the Cygwin "kernel" and the later versions of OpenSSH (i.e. 3.7.x), but this has always done the trick for me in the past. Oh yeah, I also set the CYGWIN variable to tty ntsec before running "ssh-host-config -y", but I believe that you have the opportunity to set that during the prompting that the ssh-host-config routine provides. If you get errors changing group and user ownership by hand, make sure that the account that you are logged into the cygwin shell with is at least part of the local "Administrators" group within the /etc/group file (i.e. 544). It may not hurt to run mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l > /etc/group to make sure that your local accounts are setup in the password and group files respectively. As a last resort recheck the NT permissions on the directory that you installed cygwin on. Make sure that you have Full Control on that directory and its subdirectories by either being part of whatever group(s) already have access, or by explicitly granting that access to yourself and propagating the acls down the directory hierarchy. Hope that this helps .... >Hello, >I'm trying to setup sshd and I'm getting to success at >all. Here's my >situation. I've followed the instructions at >http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html and when I >run >*ssh-host-config -y* I get this error message. >To start the service, call `net start sshd' or >`cygrunsrv -S sshd'. >chown: changing ownership of `/etc/ssh_config': >Permission denied >chown: changing ownership of `/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key': >Permission denied >chown: changing ownership of >`/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub': Permission >denied >chown: changing ownership of `/etc/ssh_host_key': >Permission denied >chown: changing ownership of `/etc/ssh_host_key.pub': >Permission denied >chown: changing ownership of `/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key': >Permission denied >chown: changing ownership of >`/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub': Permission >denied >chown: changing ownership of `/etc/sshd_config': >Permission denied >chown: changing ownership of `/var/empty': Permission >denied >chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/sshd.log': >Permission denied >When I attempt to run the service I get this error >message in the logs The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: sshd : PID 1968 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation not permitted. I'm running on a Windows 2000 Pro box but it is part of a domain but I installed cygwin as a local user to the box. I don't have administration permissions but the user account has admin privs for the local box. I tried the suggestions from this earlier post at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00319.html. But no luck. I was able to run the sshd from a command prompt but I was unable to log on doing "ssh localhost" and using a known account. Any suggestions? Thanks! Jose Torres __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
