On Jul 19, Larry Hall wrote: > At 02:32 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote: > >I did the additional chown, and my username is a mamber of the > >administrators group, but I'm still getting the same error (1053). > >Is there any log file or something that will hint at the problem? > > Only /var/log/sshd.log but this really only provides information if > sshd is running. Worth a check though.
You're right, it's empty. > >The event viewer is not helping -- > > > > 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. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to > > retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The > > following information is part of the event: sshd : PID 812 : > > starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation not > > permitted. > > So it appears there's still a permission problem. Try running sshd > directly yourself now. [...] It did run into permission problems -- the /etc/ssh* keys were not readable. Looks like chowning them didn't help at all. Finally, I resorted to removeing them and re-runnning ssh-host-config to regenerate. Now running sshd directly works, but trying it through cygrunsrv still has the same problem... -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! -- 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/