Re: SSH service on Windows Base Image

2010-03-02 Thread Andy Kurth
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

Re: SSH service on Windows Base Image

2010-02-19 Thread David Marchevsky
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

SSH service on Windows Base Image

2010-02-18 Thread Ryan Johnson
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