Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:56:24 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation Message-ID: <20030805055624.GA221723@niksula.cs.hut.fi> References: <3F299C67.1070700@aol.net> <3F29C4F1.8010805@cygwin.com> <02e101c357e0$82350730$6902a8c0@markonius> <3F2A868F.3050301@cygwin.com> <20030801155323.GC214799@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <3F2A9145.4000909@cygwin.com> <20030801193444.GD214799@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <3F2F1066.8060801@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F2F1066.8060801@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:03:18PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: > > > >I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives > >the > >same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that. > > > > > What does /var/log/sshd.log say? It remains empty, on both servers. Based on time stamp, it appears to last touched when I ran sshd from command line. As said, now the sshd is running as a service on an user account. With SYSTEM account, service still fails to start with error code 255. I believe sshd fails to _execute_ for some curious reason (so it doesn't get to open the log), but why? -- v -- v@iki.fi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/