Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/20/11:30:46
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:27:40PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > No, it's a red herring. The host keys should be readable only by the
> > process that runs sshd. This must be SYSTEM in order for impersonation
> > to work. Thus they should be readable only by SYSTEM, and that is how
> > ssh-host-config sets things up, correctly. So if you try to run sshd as
> > your normal user account, it will not work. That's why it's a bad idea
> > to mess around with running sshd from a regular prompt, because you will
> > run into all kinds of permissions/ownership issues unless you know
> > precisely what you're doing.
>
> The footnote to this is that if you obtain a shell as the SYSTEM user,
> you can run sshd from a prompt in debugging mode without any issues.
> There is a script somewhere in the mailing list archives, I think it's
> called "sysbash", that achieves this.
One can also do this with the commercial product "Firedaemon"
http://www.firedaemon.com/
which is a generic service control GUI.
--
Albert Lunde
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