Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/11/16:12:50
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>Follow the instructions in C:\Cygwin\usr\share\doc\Cygwin\openssh.README, that
>is the official documentation.
OK - have now gone through said README twice. Somewhat helpful, but
largely obtuse in places.
e.g., "If you start sshd as deamon via cygrunsrv.exe you MUST give the
"-D" option to sshd. Otherwise the service can't get started at all."
Meaning, what? You pass -D as an argument when invoking cygrunsrv
--start sshd? Hmmm...trying that gives the error message that -D is
not a valid option for sshd - which makes the text in the README hard
to interpret.
>Other than that, look at your event log and see if there is any further
>information about the failed service startup.
Nothing...
>You mention "host-ssh-config", is that a typo? the script is named
>"ssh-host-config". Its failure is very strange, perhaps you have a corrupted
>installation, you are not using text mode, are you? (in setup you
>have to select
>if Cygwin is installed for all users or not, text- or bin-mode, best
>results are
>with "for all" and "binmode (a.k.a. Unix)").
OK - now I know what you're after. I re-downloaded setup.exe, ran it,
and tried BOTH text, and binmode (i.e., tried it with text mode -
then after deleting c:\cygwin, tried again with binmode).
Made no difference. As for a corrupted installation - I tried the
above procedure using 3 different download mirrors. Made no difference.
Each time when I run ssh-host-config (following a clean install of cygwin), it
1. generates the keys
2. asks about using privilege separation
And thats it - it doesn't ask me for anything else - it doesn't ask
if I want to create 'sshd' as a local user, or if I want in install
as a service, or anything after the privilege separation query.
When I run ssh-host-config -d (i.e., in debug mode) as suggested,
there was nothing obvious about why it exited - there were no error
messages at all. It simply said I was finished. Is there a log file
I should look at (and post here) that might help suss out what its not working?
But, since I can't get the service to start, obvious all is not well.
So, I'm wondering if at this point I should manually do what
ssh-host-config is apparently refusing to do - if this is an option,
could someone provide the basic steps?
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