Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/29/13:31:27
Vilar Camara wrote:
> First of all, thank you for the quick answer.
>
>> > I've installed sshd following the tutorial on
>> > http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html, including the
>> mkpasswd
>> [snip]
>>
>> Stop right there.
>>
>> If you search this list for that link you'll find that many people
>> have problems
>> after following the instructions.
>
> Wow, I didn't expect this. Of course I should have double-checked the
> source, sorry. It's unfortunate that it is the first Google hit.
>
>> The only procedure that should be followed is in
>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README; unless you really know what you
>> are doing.
>
> Ok, I read it. First I had to erase every trace of previous installation:
>
> rm -f /etc/ssh*
> rm -rf ~/.ssh
> Erased CYGWIN system environment variable
> cygrunsrv -E/-R sshd
> Killed all running "sshd.exe" processes
> Deleted the sshd user
> (Did I leave anything behind?)
>
> Then:
>
> ssh-host-config -y, CYGWIN=3Dntsec
> ssh-user-config -y, passphrases match my user password
> cygrunsrv -S sshd
>
> "netstat -an | grep 22" gives me
> TCP 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> so I think the service is running and listening.
>
> Unfortunately the client still does nothing: "ssh localhost" keeps
> waiting forever.
>
> As a last resort, I renamed the user directory under /home, created a
> new empty one and ran ssh-user-config again. Still no luck.
>
> One particular thing at openssh.README file is the following phrase:
>
> 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.
>
> I can't get exactly what that means. It appears that the phrase should
> be "If you *manually install* sshd as daemon" or "If you run
> /usr/sbin/sshd as a non-daemon process". "ssh-host-config" already gives
> "-a -D" to "cygrunsrv -I". "cygrunsrv -S sshd -a -D" doesn't work (as I
> suspected).
Yes, you are right. The ssh-host-config script does include the -D when it
installs the service.
> Three additional things that may be clarifying or not:
>
> 1) /var/log/sshd.log is *always* empty (0-byte length);
Normal. The only thing I see there are errors when I make an error changing
/etc/sshd_config.
Usually sshd sends messages to the Windows Application Event log. I'm using
syslogd-ng so that messages go to /var/log/messages.
> 2) "ssh -vvv localhost" now gives a lot of complaining messages:
> OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/vilarnt/.ssh/identity type 0
> debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /home/vilarnt/.ssh/id_rsa.
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
Normal output. The only difference I see is "type -1" which probably means=
that
I don't have rsa key or identity.
[snip]
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
> debug3: key_read: missing keytype
> debug1: identity file /home/vilarnt/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
> debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /home/vilarnt/.ssh/id_dsa.
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
> debug3: key_read: missing keytype
> debug3: key_read: missing whitespace
...
> debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END'
> debug3: key_read: missing keytype
> debug1: identity file /home/vilarnt/.ssh/id_dsa type 2
>
> What is that? Anyway, I think this is not the main problem,
Correct.
> as I've said
> in the previous post that the "SSH Secure Shell" Windows client also hang=
s;
>
> 3) If I kill all "sshd.exe" processes while ssh is stuck, the client
> terminates with the message "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection
> closed by remote host". As I said, this may or may not be clarifying.
>
> Does anybody have a clue?
Not yet, could you show the rest of that output? or the end, to see where t=
hings
stopped.
Some ideas: are you running anything on your ~/.profile or equivalent file?;
what shell do you use? can you try a user with a home in an NTFS partition?=
(I
don't know if FAT32 is the problem because I don't use that)
> Again, thanks to everyone for the patience and dedication.
Please keep your replies on the list, the more people that see them the hig=
her
the probability that someone will spot the problem.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber
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