Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/11/29/17:28:43
I have changed quite a bit.
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 11/29/2007, Kyle Flavin wrote:
>> I am having trouble starting sshd as a Window's service. I've looked
>> over the mailing list archives, but have been unable to find a
>> resolution to my problem. I apologize for the length of this email,
>> but I tried to include all pertinent information. I have attached
>> the output of cygcheck -s -v -r.
>
> <snip>
>
> You sure you're not just suffering from some form of
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>?
>
> Of some concern is the fact that you have another installation of some
> like tools including, apparently, 'ssh'. I don't see these interfering
> based on the information you sent but....
>
> Also, your attempts to research and solve this problem are admirable and
> commendable but you may have taken it a little too far. You mentioned
> that
> you can 'sshd' from the command line, though you don't mention the
> user you
> are when you run it that way. If you didn't do this from a SYSTEM-owned
> shell the first time you tried it, you may very well have prohibited
> yourself from getting this to work for you as a service easily. You may
> want to consider wiping your installation again and reinstalling. The
> problem is that permissions on some files get set specifically for the
> user running of 'sshd' and running it as another user isn't an
> option. Now
> it is possible to run around to all the needed files/directories and
> reset
> the permissions back to what's needed but that's allot of work and is
> error prone. Also, given the changes you've tried so far relative to
> granting/restricting certain permissions, this compounds the problem.
>
> So there are a few things to mull over. ;-)
>
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