X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status:	No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00
X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
X-Yahoo-SMTP:	Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk
Message-ID:	<4C62C790.6020207@cygwin.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:53:52 -0400
From:	"Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
User-Agent:	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8
References:	<19631_1281536083_4C62B053_19631_315151_1_OF4E2075CD DOT 580ADDE0-ONC125777C DOT 004DC1DE-C125777C DOT 004E3F14 AT nbg DOT sdv DOT spb DOT de>
In-Reply-To:	<19631_1281536083_4C62B053_19631_315151_1_OF4E2075CD.580ADDE0-ONC125777C.004DC1DE-C125777C.004E3F14@nbg.sdv.spb.de>
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On 8/11/2010 10:14 AM, Carsten DOT Porzler AT spb DOT de wrote:
> Dear Cygwin community,
>
> unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error
> message while logging on by using OpenSSH
>
>     5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8
>
> This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted.
>
> If log on once at the Windows console as a user with local admin
> privileges, also the SSH logon works again.
>
> We are using Cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20
> 17:20 i686 Cygwin and OpenSSH 5.1.
>
> Does anybody know the reason for this failure?

It's really not clear to me from the above whether you're dealing with
domain users in the failing case but if so, please read the following
FAQ:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain>

-- 
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
216 Dalton Rd.                          (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746

_____________________________________________________________________

A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -