On Aug 18 10:30, Matt Swift wrote: > I've verified on two machines running XP Pro with up-to-date Cygwin > installations that upgrading from openssh 3.8.1p1-1 to openssh 3.9p1-1 > breaks sshd when running with privilege separation (the default). > Clients (including "ssh localhost") can not log into the Cygwin sshd. > Either turning off privilege separation in /etc/sshd_config or > downgrading and rebooting resolves the problem. > > I have no further insight into this problem; I mainly want just to report it.
As a temporary measure, please add the -r option when starting sshd. I haven't found the exact culprit so far, but the above flag will help. Thanks for the report. It's embarassing that I didn't find the error myself since I had accidentally switched off privilege separation a few days ago :-( Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/