On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Aaron Davies wrote: > > > > is it possible to get sshd working w/o admin privs? > > Running 'ssh-host-config' requires adminstrative privileges to create > users to run 'sshd' as a service (for W2K3 and later) and for privilege > separation. If you don't want/need these, then you can bypass these > as part of the configuration. This will mean: > > 1. You cannot run sshd as a service (on W2K3 or later) so you will not > be able to use pub-key authentication. On W2K and XP systems, you > can use the existing 'SYSTEM' user to run 'sshd' as a service if > you'd like. > > 2. You will always be running 'sshd' as a "privileged" user but this > doesn't mean much if you're not running it as a user with elevated > privileges, which you're likely not if you chose not to run as a > service, this is likely a non-issue. I'm on XP Pro. How would I go about installing it as a service under SYSTEM? ssh-host-config doesn't seem to be able to do that for me (log attached, as is cygcheck output). >> i've run ssh-host-config (without creating a new user) and started >> sshd manually from the shell. >> >> when i try to connect, i get "Connection closed by 127.0.0.1" and an >> error "sshd: PID 6520: fatal: seteuid 45758: Permission denied" shows >> up in the event viewer >> >> "id" idnicates that 45758 is me >> >> any suggestions? > > Use password authentication? I don't get to an authentication stage at all AFAICT. -- Aaron Davies aaron.dav...@gmail.com
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