Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/09/12:03:33
sshd is very picky about file permissions and ownership. I had a hard
time setting it up on one box, but luckily I had it working on another,
and by comparing, I finally got it working. I can't remember the
details, but one was getting /var/empty owned by SYSTEM.
Brian Kasper wrote:
> Hoping that the latest release of openssh would fix the problem I'm
> having starting sshd as a service, I updated my Cygwin install to Ms.
> Vinschen's latest release, 4.5p1-1. I then re-ran ssh-host-config.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm still unable to start sshd as a service, either with
> or without privilege separation. I still receive the error message
> "cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error
> 1062: The service has not been started.".
>
> I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but I've searched the mailing
> list archives and Googled for every combination of Cygwin, sshd, and
> cygrunsrv I can think of to no avail.
>
> If anyone out there has any suggestions, I would be very grateful.
>
> -B
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