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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040825212208.03867840@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:23:25 -0400 To: Colin JN Breame , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: sshd privilege separation problem In-Reply-To: <412CFACE.4010407@breame.com> References: <412CFACE.4010407@breame.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:47 PM 8/25/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >I've been running sshd and it recently stopped working. I'm not sure whether I did anything to it, but I've managed to track down the problem. > >If I use privilege separation (ssh-host-config), as soon as I type the password in, the message "Connection to localhost closed." is displayed. However, if I don't use privilege separation, everything works as it should. I've tried syncing the groups and passwd files with no success. > >This one is puzzling me; any ideas? Sure. Read the list. ;-) is the best thread on the subject, though there are others. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/