Re: Cannot run SSH
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. After working for a couple more days, it broke again. Nevertheless, this is what I did to make it work after not working. I realize some of this may be unnecessary or even counterproductive. I don't know enough Cygwin and/or Windows to say what made a difference so I'm just telling you what I did in the off chance that it helps somebody find the real problem. 1. Stop and delete the service: cygrunsrv --stop sshd cygrunsrv --remove sshd 2. Remove the cyg_server user via Windows. 3. Restart system. 4. From bash, run ssh-host-config to recreate user and sshd service. Answer yes to everything except allow cyg_server to be the name of the user. 5. Manually set the password for the cyg_server user from Cygwin. Make it 10 characters with only alphanumeric (i.e. abcDEF1234 - not my password obviously). passwd cygserver 6. Go into Services, properties of the sshd service, Log On tab. Manually set that to the stored log on password for the service. 7. Close bash if it's still open. 8. Start--Run--ash and run the rebaseall command. 9. From the command prompt, run net start sshd. Please forgive the superfluous details. Good luck! Alex - Original Message From: baykusderki baykusde...@gmail.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Sun, November 22, 2009 1:29:03 AM Subject: 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 you have to redirect them: mkpasswd /etc/passwd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Yep the SYSTEM is listed alright. I already created the passwd file multiple times, before and after ssh installation. I do not know what all those numbers in it but as far as I can see the users and their default folders listed fine there. I can pretty much see all the defined users including the ssh setup based users. mkpasswd -cl /etc/passwd was the command I have used multiple times. The weird thing was that the Cygwin+Ssh installation on Win7 was the easiest of all installations I had done before. It worked for couple days and stopped yesterday. Something is funky and I cannot figure it out after spending 10 hours on this. I am sure it is couple minutes fix if you are an expert on this stuff but that is the best i can do on my own. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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. After working for a couple more days, it broke again. Nevertheless, this is what I did to make it work after not working. I realize some of this may be unnecessary or even counterproductive. I don't know enough Cygwin and/or Windows to say what made a difference so I'm just telling you what I did in the off chance that it helps somebody find the real problem. 1. Stop and delete the service: cygrunsrv --stop sshd cygrunsrv --remove sshd 2. Remove the cyg_server user via Windows. 3. Restart system. 4. From bash, run ssh-host-config to recreate user and sshd service. Answer yes to everything except allow cyg_server to be the name of the user. 5. Manually set the password for the cyg_server user from Cygwin. Make it 10 characters with only alphanumeric (i.e. abcDEF1234 - not my password obviously). passwd cygserver 6. Go into Services, properties of the sshd service, Log On tab. Manually set that to the stored log on password for the service. 7. Close bash if it's still open. 8. Start--Run--ash and run the rebaseall command. 9. From the command prompt, run net start sshd. Please forgive the superfluous details. Good luck! Alex Hi Thanks for the help offer, I desperately need it here :) I actually have tried all those steps many times :( including rebasing. But I will try these again in the order of steps you have provided. The only thing I did not try was using alphanumeric password thanks again -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cannot run SSH
On 11/21/2009 10:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Huang Bambo on 11/21/2009 8:29 PM: run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. 2009/11/22 baykusderkibaykusderki AT gmail.com: 121 lines of email, with only one line of new content, and on the wrong side. PLEASE learn how to avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU, and quit quoting raw email addresses: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR All true and a very good point. But even more important is the advice will certainly keep 'sshd' from running as a daemon now. I understand why people try this and why they recommend it but I really wish there was a way we could keep people who don't understand the differences of switching users on Windows compared to Linux from giving out advice like this... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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 work at the moment. I actually installed and ran SSH successfully on this machine couple days ago when I have first installed Windows7. Yesterday it has stopped working so without any given reason. The only thing I can remember that might affect things is downloading the latest whatever version of cygwin setup.exe that was on Cygwin site yesterday. I did install couple apps like xemacs, command line task-todo app and I think I have upgraded the Openssh to the latest version. Up until that moment, the Ssh server was running alright. I am not sure if anything else has been updated during the installation. I tried ssh-host-config -y, it did not resolve anything for me. I did fire rm -R etc/ssh*, deleted the service and the users, started over. It did not lead to any success. I have actually deleted my cygwin folder since it was a new installation I just did not care about it, just to start fresh. After the fresh install I fired ssh-host-config -y in the commandline. It installed everything without a glitch but Ssh was not running successfully. Just to see if it would work on any other win7 installation, I did install windows7(32bit version) on a virtual machine(virtual box) and I installed the same Cygwin setup. This time without much itching the Ssh server started and worked well. So I am really not sure about what to make of this situation. I have Windows Defender disabled and I do not run any virus-firewall application at the moment. The sshd.log file under /var/log/ is empty(0 kb) Here are some error messages $ net start sshd The CYGWIN sshd service is starting. The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started. The service did not report an error. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534. $ cygrunsrv.exe -S sshd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. Here is the cygcheck $ cygcheck /usr/sbin/sshd C:\cygwinx\usr\sbin\sshd.exe C:\cygwinx\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Console-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-DateTime-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Debug-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ErrorHandling-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Fibers-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Heap-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Interlocked-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-NamedPipe-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Profile-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-String-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Util-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Core-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-winsvc-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Management-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Management-L2-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-LocalRegistry-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Security-Base-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-RtlSupport-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-IO-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ThreadPool-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll C:\Windows\system32\SspiCli.dll C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTBASE.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-DelayLoad-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cygwrap-0.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cygz.dll I would appreciate any lead on this issue. thanks -- Problem
Re: Cannot run SSH
run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. 2009/11/22 baykusderki baykusde...@gmail.com: 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 work at the moment. I actually installed and ran SSH successfully on this machine couple days ago when I have first installed Windows7. Yesterday it has stopped working so without any given reason. The only thing I can remember that might affect things is downloading the latest whatever version of cygwin setup.exe that was on Cygwin site yesterday. I did install couple apps like xemacs, command line task-todo app and I think I have upgraded the Openssh to the latest version. Up until that moment, the Ssh server was running alright. I am not sure if anything else has been updated during the installation. I tried ssh-host-config -y, it did not resolve anything for me. I did fire rm -R etc/ssh*, deleted the service and the users, started over. It did not lead to any success. I have actually deleted my cygwin folder since it was a new installation I just did not care about it, just to start fresh. After the fresh install I fired ssh-host-config -y in the commandline. It installed everything without a glitch but Ssh was not running successfully. Just to see if it would work on any other win7 installation, I did install windows7(32bit version) on a virtual machine(virtual box) and I installed the same Cygwin setup. This time without much itching the Ssh server started and worked well. So I am really not sure about what to make of this situation. I have Windows Defender disabled and I do not run any virus-firewall application at the moment. The sshd.log file under /var/log/ is empty(0 kb) Here are some error messages $ net start sshd The CYGWIN sshd service is starting. The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started. The service did not report an error. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534. $ cygrunsrv.exe -S sshd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. Here is the cygcheck $ cygcheck /usr/sbin/sshd C:\cygwinx\usr\sbin\sshd.exe C:\cygwinx\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Console-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-DateTime-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Debug-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ErrorHandling-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Fibers-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Heap-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Interlocked-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-NamedPipe-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Profile-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-String-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-Util-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Core-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-winsvc-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Management-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-WIN-Service-Management-L2-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-LocalRegistry-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Security-Base-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-RtlSupport-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-IO-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-ThreadPool-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll C:\Windows\system32\SspiCli.dll C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTBASE.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Core-DelayLoad-L1-1-0.dll C:\Windows\system32\API-MS-Win-Security-LSALookup-L1-1-0.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll C:\cygwinx\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll
Re: Cannot run SSH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Huang Bambo on 11/21/2009 8:29 PM: run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start. 2009/11/22 baykusderki baykusderki AT gmail.com: 121 lines of email, with only one line of new content, and on the wrong side. PLEASE learn how to avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU, and quit quoting raw email addresses: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksIsRoACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDAMgCdGRj2D/PegypsgMTsmAPlX+L7 wygAoJhnGes8vvON7vAZUnYesS6xGymY =G0KK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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 2009-11-21 21:36 . drwxr-xr-x+ 1 masayeni Administrators 4096 2009-11-21 21:17 .. drwxr-xr-x+ 1 masayeni Administrators0 2009-11-21 21:15 cache drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cyg_server Administrators0 2009-11-21 21:36 empty drwxr-xr-x+ 1 masayeni Administrators0 2009-11-21 21:14 lib drwxrwxrwx+ 1 masayeni Administrators0 2009-11-21 21:36 log drwxrwxrwx+ 1 masayeni Administrators0 2009-11-21 21:14 run drwxrwxrwt+ 1 masayeni Administrators0 2009-11-21 21:14 tmp -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cannot run SSH
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:43:51 -0600 baykusderki wrote: 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. 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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 only time it(/usr/sbin/sshd) does not complain about the folder rights is when I just delete the empty folder and create mkdir /var/empty , straight with my admin account in the command line. The sshd starts ok by firing /usr/bin/sshd. It seems to be listed in the task list but none of the service running commands work, neither trying to run it from the Windows service panel. I can login as ssh localhost, but none of the other defined users or networked computers can connect to it. The passwd file lists these users properly as far as I can tell. here I am trying to login to ssh the first time(test purpose). Normally it is supposed to create the home folder and give me a ncie cozzy welcome. $ ssh u...@localhost u...@localhost's password: Permission denied, please try again. u...@localhost's password: Could not chdir to home directory /home/ubun: No such file or directory /bin/bash: Permission denied Connection to localhost closed. thanks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cannot run SSH
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:48:39 -0600 baykusderki wrote: 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 passwd file lists these users properly as far as I can tell. 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 you have to redirect them: mkpasswd /etc/passwd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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 you have to redirect them: mkpasswd /etc/passwd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Yep the SYSTEM is listed alright. I already created the passwd file multiple times, before and after ssh installation. I do not know what all those numbers in it but as far as I can see the users and their default folders listed fine there. I can pretty much see all the defined users including the ssh setup based users. mkpasswd -cl /etc/passwd was the command I have used multiple times. The weird thing was that the Cygwin+Ssh installation on Win7 was the easiest of all installations I had done before. It worked for couple days and stopped yesterday. Something is funky and I cannot figure it out after spending 10 hours on this. I am sure it is couple minutes fix if you are an expert on this stuff but that is the best i can do on my own. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cannot run ssh...
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:29:58AM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: you must install the openssl package. see http://www.cygin.com/packages Which should, of course, have already been installed automatically if you run the normal cygwin install. I'm redirecting this to the proper mailing list. I also suggest that reading http://cygwin.com/bugs.html will be a good first step to debugging the problem. cgf via ssh, I get the following message in the xterm: bash: /usr/bin/ssh: Permission denied then another message appears in a window with the message: A required .DLL file, CYGCRYPTO-0.9.7.DLL was not found.
Re: Cannot run ssh...
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:29:58AM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: you must install the openssl package. see http://www.cygin.com/packages Which should, of course, have already been installed automatically if you run the normal cygwin install. I'm redirecting this to the proper mailing list. I also suggest that reading http://cygwin.com/bugs.html will be a good first step to debugging the problem. cgf via ssh, I get the following message in the xterm: bash: /usr/bin/ssh: Permission denied then another message appears in a window with the message: A required .DLL file, CYGCRYPTO-0.9.7.DLL was not found. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
