Re: Can't spawn shell for authenticated user in SSHD(revisited)

Thanks for the reply Peter. While your suggestions didn't fix the problem, they did get me thinking and digging back into things. Ultimately turned out that the problem was that while the system PATH environment variable had "c:\cygwin" defined, it did not include path "c:\cygwin\bin". I was s

Re: Can't spawn shell for authenticated user in SSHD (revisited)

I am taking a wild guess- when you ssh in, it spawns a shell and then still does some ssh-ish tasks. Maybe it can't complete them from the command shell. Are you logging in or just firing off remote processes? It might be worth trying to set your shell to /bin/bash, ssh in and see if you can

Can't spawn shell for authenticated user in SSHD (revisited)

Hi all, I posted the message appended at the end of this one last week, and didn't receive a _single_ response to it. This leads me to believe that either 1) I have unwittingly committed some horrendous faux pax, despite the fact that I did attempt to research this problem before posting to th