Kevin Hilton wrote: > Let me just make sure I know what you are telling me to do, since I > already did this and it didnt make a difference. As an administrator, > I: > 1. Delete the sshd user -- Ok I manually edited the /etc/passwd file > and deleted this user
No, I mean delete the *user*, not a line in a passwd file. Windows has a notion of user accounts, Cygwin does not; it just mirrors the Windows database in the passwd and group file. So deleting a user means doing it in Windows, through the control panel, or with "net user". On 2k3 and greater (including Vista) ssh-host-config should have created both a sshd (for privsep) and a sshd_server user (for running the service), so you'd want to run "net user sshd /delete" and "net user sshd_server /delete". You can run "net user" to see the list of Windows user accounts. If you don't see these user accounts it means the ssh-host-config script wasn't able to create them, which is probably the underlying cause. The reason for suggesting to delete these users is that ssh-host-config won't recreate them if they already exist, so if they exist and are setup wrong, ssh-host-config can't help you. > /var/log/sshd.log reveals: > $ more sshd.log > Privilege separation user sshd does not exist > > So how do I create the sshd user? Is there anything I am missing?? > This is my first time running into problems. Ive repeated this > process on XP boxes like 20 times without incidence. Its even easier > on Ubuntu. However getting this up and running on Vista is a fiasco. Again, you shouldn't have to do anything other than run the ssh-host-config script. It is over 600 lines of logic and meant to take care of everything required for any version of Windows. There is no manual fiddling needed. I have a Vista test system. I just ran "ssh-host-config -y" and it worked perfectly, so I don't see what this "fiasco" you talk about is. If you use UAC you you need to run Cygwin as an administrator when running ssh-host-config otherwise it will be unable to do a lot of the steps required. You can do that simply by right clicking on the Cygwin icon and choosing "Run as administrator". Or disable UAC. Brian -- 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/
