What's your trouble? 2009/6/12 David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com>: > cygwin: > > I installed a fresh copy of Cygwin and a fresh copy of the Cygwin > OpenSSH service on a fresh installation of Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 > 32-bit yesterday: > > 1. Download Cygwin Setup to C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe. > > 2. Run Cygwin Setup: > > a. Install from Internet (default). > > b. C:\cygwin root directory (default). > > c. Install for all users (default). > > d. Unix/ binary default text file type (default). > > e. C:\cygwin\setup local package directory (default). > > f. Direct connection to Internet (default). > > g. ftp://mirrors.kernel.org download site. > > h. Select source packages to match base/ default packages. > > i. Create Desktop and Start menu shortcuts. > > 3. Start Cygwin Bash Shell, then exit it. > > 4. Run Cygwin Setup again: > > a-g. Same as above. > > h. Select 'openssh' package. Setup will select dependencies. > Select source packages for all of these. > > i. No need to recreate shortcuts. > > 5. Start Cygwin Bash Shell and wrestle with ssh-host-config, 'net start > sshd', and /var/log/sshd.log, rebooting several times along the way for > the sake of paranoia. In the end, I need to make four system changes to > get sshd working: > > a. 'chmod 0777 /etc/passwd' -- overkill, so that ssh-host-config > could create the cyg_server account. (I changed permissions to 0644 > afterwards.) > > b. 'chmod 0777 /etc/group' -- more overkill for ssh-host-config. > (I changed permissions to 0644 afterwards.) > > c. 'chmod 0777 /var' -- more overkill for ssh-host-config. (I left > it that way.) > > d. 'chown cyg_server /var/empty' -- necessary to start the sshd > service. > > > HTH, > > David > > > -- > 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/ > >
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