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