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 Message-ID: <412D5785.7010007@cox.net> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:22:45 -0700 From: Greg Morgan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: Colin JN Breame Subject: Re: sshd privilege separation problem References: <1093470962.13412.ezmlm@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <1093470962.13412.ezmlm@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Colin JN Breame 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? I experienced the same problem last Wednesday, 8/18. I created a fresh local mirror with the enhanced mkcygwget script. I didn't try to install sshd without using privilege separation. I ran out of time. I did try various clean install options, removing my known hosts files, etc. I don't know if it matters but I did add one option to this install. I added the NFS package to my normal full installation of all packages. I did find one oddity to what you report. I use scp daily. The scp function works correctly with privilege separation while I received the "connection to localhost closed message" trying to ssh into the PC. Greg -- 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/