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: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:50:03 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Jeff Silverman Subject: Re: Problems starting SSHD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4231D448.7090208@real.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Jeff Silverman wrote: > > > sshd : PID 1696 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation > > not permitted. > > Try running > > cygcheck /usr/sbin/sshd.exe | sed -ne 's,\\,/,g' -e '/cygwin/p' | \ > xargs cygpath -u | xargs echo chmod a+x Grr, embarrassed by cut-and-paste... Again... Here's the "real" incantation: cygcheck /usr/sbin/sshd.exe | sed -ne 's,\\,/,g' -e '/cygwin/p' | \ xargs cygpath -u | xargs chmod a+x Sorry for letting that test bit through... Igor > (as is, on 2 lines -- just cut-and-paste to your shell). > > Also, "chmod a+x /bin". > > > and > > > > sshd : PID 2548 : starting service `' failed: redirect_fd: open (1, > > /var/log/sshd.log): 13, Permission denied. > > Try "chmod a+x /var /var/log" and > "chown SYSTEM.SYSTEM /var/log/sshd.log && chmod 644 /var/log/sshd.log" > > > I have attached the output of cygcheck -svr as the file > > cygcheck)output.txt. > > What else should I look at, please? > > It's always a good idea to check permissions on anything that might be > used in a program running as service, just to make sure that the SYSTEM > user (which is used to run services, a.k.a. LocalSystem) has appropriate > access. > > An aside: one possible useful addition to cygcheck is printing the > permission bits when listing the DLLs in verbose mode... Any volunteers > to add this functionality? > > HTH, > Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/