Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote: > ... > I've discovered that if I kill the demon, > I still get timeout from the outside, > but connection refused locally.
If you can login to ssh locally but not from the outside, perhaps your Windows' firewall is blocking this. > I haven't been able to restart the demon: > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writeable. You must give the files the correct ownership and access rights: In cygwin, issue: cd / chmod og+w /tmp touch /var/log/sshd.log chown system:system /var/log/sshd.log /var/empty /etc/ssh_h* chmod 755 /var/empty Define the service with the command cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd Start the service by cygrunsrv -S sshd Stop the service by cygrunsrv -E sshd Hope this helps. -- Wilfried Hennings -- 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/
