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Date:	Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:57:09 +0200
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From:	"Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: How to run cygwin sshd as a domain user?
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:20:25 -0500, Xing Qiu <liqiuxing AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> No, I tried that, and it didn't work.  As far as I understand, cygrunsrv is
> just a wrapper to run some daemon in the background. I simply can't start
> sshd with my own user.  Below are the error messages:
            ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d
> debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_4.1p1
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
> Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
> Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
> sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
>
> Here is the result of ls -lh /etc/ssh* :
>
> $ ls -lh /etc/ssh*
> -rwx------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM      1.3K Nov  4 15:03 /etc/ssh_config
> -rw-------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       668 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
> -rw-r--r--  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       600 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
> -rw-------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       525 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_key
> -rw-r--r--  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       329 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_key.pub
> -rw-------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       883 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
> -rw-r--r--  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       220 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
> -rw-r--r--  1 xqiu   mkgroup-l-d 2.8K Nov  4 15:03 /etc/sshd_config
>
> And if I do what the FAQ tells me to do, I get the following error message:
>
>
> cygrunsrv -I "Xing_sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-D' -u xqiu -w mypasswd
                                                     ^^^^^^^
> ...
>
> $ cygrunsrv -S Xing_sshd
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1053:
> The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
> fashion.
>
> Should I go ahead change the ownership of /etc/ssh* ?

Yes !  If you want to run it with your own user, you must own the
/etc/ssh*key files (only the ownership is important).

Try it first with "StrictModes" and "UsePrivilegeSeparation" changed
to  "no"  (in /etc/sshd_config).

Ehud.


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