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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:03:18 -0400
From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To:	Ville Herva <vherva AT niksula DOT hut DOT fi>
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Subject:	Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation
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Ville Herva wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote:
> 
>>Please *attach* your cygcheck output next time rather than including
>>it in the text of your message.
> 
> 
> Sorry.
>  
> 
>>I suggest the following two changes.
>>
>>  1. Remove 'ntea' from your CYGWIN environment variable.
> 
> 
> It still says 'Could not start the CYGWIN sshd service on \\SERVER. Error
> 2140: An internal Windows NT error occurred.' In the event log, there's this
> message again:
> 
>  The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) could not be found. It
>  contains the following insertion string(s): sshd : PID 1009 : starting
>  service `sshd' failed: execv: 255, error 255.
> 
> I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives the
> same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that.
>  


What does /var/log/sshd.log say?


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