Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/10/17:08:50
After 2-3 hours googling for insights, and thoroughly reading what
was available, I've decided to stop beating my head against the wall,
and ask here.
Basically, trying to get sshd installed as a service under WinXP Pro
-SP2. Trying the install as a user who has full admin privelages on
the system.
1. downloaded Cygwin - installed what I needed (cygrunsrv and
openssh) in addition to the usual defaults. No muss, no fuss.
2. modifed the env variables by adding a variable named CYGWIN with
value ntsec tty
3. added c:\cygwin\bin to the PATH
4. now is when the problems seem to start (I think)...when I run
host-ssh-config, I get only one question - the one about 'privelage
separation'. I answer 'yes' Thats it. No further questions - nothing
about 'local user', or 'install sshd as a service', or the 'CYGWIN=' question.
Hmmm...
5. bring up a terminal window, and type
cygrunsrv --start sshd
Nada. After about 60 seconds of 'trying', it quits, and refuses to
start. Reboot 10 or so times - find the sshd is sitting there as a
service, but not started . Manual starts all fail.
6. Try chown and chmod for various files as mentioned on several
Google sites. Nada. Still can't get sshd to start.
So, given that there must be at least several hundred hits on 'sshd
won't start' on Google, seems as if this is a ubiquitous, and
pernicious problem. Surely there has to be a simple solution.
suggestions? Pointers to solution? The machine is generic, vanilla,
clean XP SP2. I'd have thought that the sshd install should have been
about as straightforward as you could get, but no such luck.
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