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 X-T2-Posting-ID: eEb+/yGrSvXPWyFle/vDDQ== Message-ID: <41B76F5D.8050907@ege.cc> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:17:17 +0100 From: Bernhard Ege User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernhard Ege CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd service wont accept password References: <41B76D36.6070101@ege.cc> In-Reply-To: <41B76D36.6070101@ege.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Bernhard Ege wrote: > Well, I am at a loss. My sshd service will not accept my password. > However, starting sshd like this: > > /usr/sbin/sshd & > > and then quitting the bash shell (optional) makes sshd work just fine, > accepting my password as it should. > > Invalid user bme from 127.0.0.1. Ok, I thought of one thing more to try just after sending my previous email. The above log line (invalid user) prompted me to check the owner of the /etc/passwd file and it was owned by bme (me). I changed it to SYSTEM and the sshd service worked again. I just figured SYSTEM was able to read my files and didn't think twice about it before now. I am sorry for not figuring this out before sending my email, but it is not always easy to debug foreign applications. :-/ Bernhard -- 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/