I am working on a windows 2000 box that openssh recently stopped working on. For several months openssh worked correctly through cygwin as a service, until the box was errantly shut down by a power outage. Subsequent attempts to log in to said box through ssh resulted in authentication errors.
Several different attempts to solve the problem have since been attempted, including the re-installation of openssh, followed by later the re-installation of cygwin into a new directory. Now we are instead blessed with the windows "error 1062" when trying to start openssh. I have seen a variety of solutions for this problem (such as checking the permissions on /var/empty, correcting /etc/passwd for the user 'sshd', explicitly setting windows permissions for the cygwin directory to the user SYSTEM, and verifying the windows registry keys). None of the proposed solutions have made a difference. I have also tried running it from the cygwin prompt as administrator (after adjusting permissions on /var/empty accordingly). This does not work correctly, either. If I run it this way, I am back to where I was before - password authentication fails, even when connecting to localhost as a non-administrator user who has a valid home directory and valid shell path. I am out of ideas on this problem. My current installation of cygwin is in a completely new directory - I moved my previous installation from "C:\cygwin" to "C:\cygwin-old" and installed the new one as "C:\cygwin". I'm not sure if this is important, but I noticed when I ran 'ssh-host-config -y' as administrator, it never gave a "CYGWIN=" prompt. I haven't found a good explanation for this behavior, either. This is "OpenSSH_5.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h May 2008" on cygwin from setup 2.573.2.2. thank you Lee Parsons -- 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/
