Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/16/12:37:03
In complete frustration, I wiped my entire Cygwin install and
re-downloaded and -installed everything. Then, on a whim, I logged in
as the actual "Administrator" account on my box (instead of my account,
which *is* a member of the Administrators group) and configured sshd in
a bash shell by issuing the following commands:
mkgroup -l -u > /etc/group
mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
ssh-host-config
(accept all defaults and reasonable options, including privsep)
ssh-user-config
(create all tokens and set all to be valid for login)
cygrunsrv -S sshd
(watch, startled, as no "Error 1062" message appears)
ssh localhost
(it works, and there was much rejoicing)
I then logged out and logged in as my user account and repeated the
ssh-user-config step. "ssh localhost" then worked!
I wish I had better information about exactly what resolved the problem,
but all I can say is it appears one must actually be "Administrator" to
get sshd working -- perhaps there's some subtle difference between the
"Administrator" user and any other user that happens to be in the
"Administrator" group?
For the record, here's the output of "uname -a" on my system:
CYGWIN_NT-5.2-WOW64 ABF466 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin
And the version information reported by "/usr/sbin/sshd --help":
OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006
Thanks to everyone who made suggestions. I wish I had definitive
information as to exactly what fixed the problem ....
-B
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