Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/11/01/16:22:43
Situation:
Running opensshd (openssh-2.2.0p1.tar.gz) and cygwin1.dll (ver 1.1.4) on
Windows NT 4.0 sp6a.
Using cmd.exe in the passwd file NOT bash.exe
Problem
If you start sshd.exe from a command prompt everything works fine no matter
how many times you login, meaning:
1) You can login with an ssh client
2) You get a cmd.exe environment
3) You can run all command level programs and see there output (i.e.
net use, netstat etc.)
If you start sshd.exe as a service with the srvany or inetd everything will
only work right for the very first attempt. Every login after that will
only allow you to run commands that were compiled into cmd.exe (dir, copy
etc). If you try to run another command (netstat, xcopy) the command will
run, but the display will not echo back to you like it did the first time
you loged in.
After weeks of trouble shooting this problem and watching the process run,
(note I had to use the su and start program to see what was going on with
each user and such). It is my conclusion that sshd is not inheriting the
command environment the way it should when you start the process as a service.
Second, I finally figured out a work around for the cmd.exe shell over the
ssh connection. The problem only came up when you use cmd.exe instead of
bash.exe in the passwd file.
Solution
Work around solution (note: my solution uses my own NON-STANDARD cygwin
directory structure, please make those changes as necessary so that it will
fit with your directory structure).
When settting up srvany to start the service, point it to a batch file
instead of sshd.exe.
Then use the following syntax in the sshd.bat file
c:\local\sbin\opensshd\sshd.exe -f c:\local\sbin\opensshd\conf\sshd.conf |
c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe
where the sshd.exe is getting piped to a cmd.exe. This way the service
will run in the correct environment that will then allow you to use the
cmd.exe in the passwd file.
I have made a step by step guide for getting sshd to work on NT and using
the cmd.exe instead of bash.exe. (for those users that are not comfortable
with bash). http://www.coe.utah.edu/guides/software/sshd_setup.html. Once
again, this uses my own directory structure and sshd and vim are the only
cygwin products that I use. Please keep this in mind as you read this.
Thanks
Bret
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Bret Jordan Dean's Office
LAN Manager College of Engineering
801.585.3765 University of Utah
jordan AT coe DOT utah DOT edu
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