Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/11/04:50:14
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Chip Olson wrote:
> Quoth Larry Hall:
> > At 03:03 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > I read in the archives that logging in with public-key authentication
> > can cause problems like this, and indeed, if I log in via ssh with -o
> > PubKeyAuthentication=no, the mount works fine (and reports my user's
> > UID and GID, not 0 for both as when I mount from the desktop).
> >
> > I have another machine here that mounts just fine from a public-key
> > ssh session. Unfortunately, the person who configured it is no longer
> > with the company. :-(
> >
> > See the FAQ entry:
> >
> > Why don't my services work (or access network shares)?
> > < http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC33>
>
> After reading the FAQ entry, the referenced cygrunsrv README and
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html, I made the following
> changes to my configuration, independently of each other:
>
> - Changed the group IDs of Administrator and my user account from 513
> (None) to 544 (Administrators). This had no effect.
Read the above page again, please. If I understood your statement
correctly, you've edited /etc/passwd and /etc/group directly. This is not
*supposed* to have any effect, unless you use the appropriate Windows
tools to adjust group memberships.
> - Reinstalled sshd so as to log in as Administrator, as follows:
>
> cygrunsrv --install sshd -u Administrator -w mypasswd -p /usr/sbin/sshd.exe
>
> When I subsequently ran cygrunsrv --start sshd, I got:
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053:
> The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
The usual place to look for the actual errors when starting sshd is the
Windows event log.
> sshd was then hung in "starting" state, according to Service Manager,
> and I had to reboot to clear it.
FWIW, you can try killing the corresponding cygrunsrv process (using
either the Task Manager or "/bin/kill -f") instead of rebooting.
Igor
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