Re: Cannot run SSH

On 11/23/2009 1:32 PM, Alexander Quinn wrote: FWIW, I had the exact same problem. This was under Cygwin 1.5 (not 1.7) and Win7 (build 7600 enterprise release). The OpenSSH server worked for a few days and then stopped working with similar symptoms to you. I eventually got it working again.

Re: Cannot run SSH

On 11/22/2009 12:00 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Is SYSTEM in /etc/passwd? If not, I think that's a problem. Even if it's there, maybe it's wrong. I would try the mkpasswd command to recreate your passwd file (and might as well mkgroup to recreate the /etc/group file). They both write to stdout so

Re: Cannot run SSH

OK, try this: chown root:root /var/empty Although, mine is owned by SYSTEM, so if that doesn't work, try: chown SYSTEM:root /var/empty I tried both and got errors. it complained that there was no such user or group named root. So i tried "chown SYSTEM /var/empty" and it did not work. The

Re: Cannot run SSH

On 11/21/2009 9:29 PM, Huang Bambo wrote: run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. Hi This is what I get " $ /usr/sbin/sshd /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. " And this is what I have "$ ls -al /var drwxr-xr-x+ 1 masayeni Administrators0 200

Cannot run SSH

Hello, In the past I have managed to install Cygwin and SSH on multiple computers. All of them are running fine and serving SSH just fine. So I am not that new to installing this stuff. At the moment I am trying to run SSH on my Windows7 64. I know it is not tested and maybe not supposed to