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 From: Eli Barzilay MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17117.63714.230863.91505@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 03:10:26 -0400 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: ssh problems In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050719083147.03cdfaa8@pop.prospeed.net> References: <17099.10669.464228.125667@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> <6.2.1.2.0.20050705221013.08cdd6b0@pop.prospeed.net> <17099.18679.819770.637448@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> <200507091454.38902.lhall@rfk.com> <17105.47620.419723.654228@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> <6.2.1.2.0.20050710223821.03cd7140@127.0.0.1> <17106.15844.889622.893399@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> <17114.65208.516047.93257@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> <6.2.1.2.0.20050717223532.05671008@pop.prospeed.net> <17115.11978.668163.72702@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> <6.2.1.2.0.20050718233351.03cd2b18@pop.prospeed.net> <17116.40546.768442.498799@tulare.cs.cornell.edu> <6.2.1.2.0.20050719083147.03cdfaa8@pop.prospeed.net> On Jul 19, Larry Hall wrote: > At 02:32 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote: > >I did the additional chown, and my username is a mamber of the > >administrators group, but I'm still getting the same error (1053). > >Is there any log file or something that will hint at the problem? > > Only /var/log/sshd.log but this really only provides information if > sshd is running. Worth a check though. You're right, it's empty. > >The event viewer is not helping -- > > > > The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be > > found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry > > information or message DLL files to display messages from a > > remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to > > retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The > > following information is part of the event: sshd : PID 812 : > > starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation not > > permitted. > > So it appears there's still a permission problem. Try running sshd > directly yourself now. [...] It did run into permission problems -- the /etc/ssh* keys were not readable. Looks like chowning them didn't help at all. Finally, I resorted to removeing them and re-runnning ssh-host-config to regenerate. Now running sshd directly works, but trying it through cygrunsrv still has the same problem... -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! -- 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/