Re: SSH service on Windows Base Image
This is correct. There needs to be a user named root which is a member of the Administrators group. Anything Cygwin-related should be done while logged in to Windows as root. I would not manually alter the passwd file. The cygwin-sshd-config.sh does this for you. It regenerates both the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files based on the Windows accounts that exist on the computer. Also, when you create the root account you should configure the WINDOWS_ROOT_PASSWORD line in /etc/vcl/vcld.conf. Hope this helps, Andy On 2/19/2010 3:09 PM, David Marchevsky wrote: Ryan, You can fix this issue by creating a user on the virtual machine (windows) called root. Make sure to give it a strong password, though. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Ryan Johnsonrjoh...@gwmail.gwu.eduwrote: I am trying to complete the instructions for Installing and configuring cygwin sshd, part of the instructions for creating a Windows base image. I do not think I quite understand how the permissions should be set up. Before running the *cygwin-sshd-config.sh* script I had mapped the root user in the /etc/passwd file to the current Administrator account I was logged in as. I then logged into cygwin as root and ran the * cygwin-sshd-config.sh *script which took me through the process of creating the privileged user cyg_server. Ultimately I get the error 'The service did not start due to a logon failure'. Also the script seems to overwrite the root entry I placed in the passwd file. Any clarification as to the permissions would be greatly appreciated. Ryan Johnson Academic Technologies George Washington University -- Andy Kurth Virtual Computing Lab Office of Information Technology North Carolina State University andy_ku...@ncsu.edu 919.513.4090
Re: SSH service on Windows Base Image
Ryan, You can fix this issue by creating a user on the virtual machine (windows) called root. Make sure to give it a strong password, though. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Ryan Johnson rjoh...@gwmail.gwu.eduwrote: I am trying to complete the instructions for Installing and configuring cygwin sshd, part of the instructions for creating a Windows base image. I do not think I quite understand how the permissions should be set up. Before running the *cygwin-sshd-config.sh* script I had mapped the root user in the /etc/passwd file to the current Administrator account I was logged in as. I then logged into cygwin as root and ran the * cygwin-sshd-config.sh *script which took me through the process of creating the privileged user cyg_server. Ultimately I get the error 'The service did not start due to a logon failure'. Also the script seems to overwrite the root entry I placed in the passwd file. Any clarification as to the permissions would be greatly appreciated. Ryan Johnson Academic Technologies George Washington University -- David Roman Marchevsky 630.631.9313
SSH service on Windows Base Image
I am trying to complete the instructions for Installing and configuring cygwin sshd, part of the instructions for creating a Windows base image. I do not think I quite understand how the permissions should be set up. Before running the *cygwin-sshd-config.sh* script I had mapped the root user in the /etc/passwd file to the current Administrator account I was logged in as. I then logged into cygwin as root and ran the * cygwin-sshd-config.sh *script which took me through the process of creating the privileged user cyg_server. Ultimately I get the error 'The service did not start due to a logon failure'. Also the script seems to overwrite the root entry I placed in the passwd file. Any clarification as to the permissions would be greatly appreciated. Ryan Johnson Academic Technologies George Washington University
