On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: > Christopher Cobb <ccobb <at> email.com> writes: > > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > On Aug 19 05:19, Mike Skallas wrote: > > > > I had this same problem when I re-installed cygwin today. Took me a good > > > > hour to figure out what the hell was going on. > > > > > > Folks, does anybody of you actually *read* this mailing list or, FWIW, > > > at least the package announcements? This is the pointer to my OpenSSH > > > 3.9p1-1 announcement from *yesterday*: > > > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00633.html > > > > > > *shaking head* > > > Corinna > > > > Thank you, Corinna, for pointing out this information: > > > > "Thanks to an early bug report on the cygwin mailing list, I found that > > you *must* add the -r option when starting the sshd daemon, if you want > > to use privilege separation. ..." > > I modified line 556 of ssh-host-config to be: > > if cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "CYGWIN sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a "-D -r" -u > sshd_server -w "${_password}" -e "CYGWIN=${_cygwin}" > > Notice the -r. > > I restarted sshd, but I still get: > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Connection to momtst5 closed. > > The connection closes immediately as others have mentioned. > > Is that the form of -r that you mean?
Yes, but you have to reinstall the sshd service, not just restart sshd, i.e., cygrunsrv -E sshd; cygrunsrv -R sshd; ssh-host-config; cygrunsrv -S sshd HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/