X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 00:30:52 -0500 Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: <46551144.9020204@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: <46551144.9020204@u.washington.edu> OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Dan Miller wrote: [snip] > C:\Program Files\UVP > Inc\;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Pro= gram > Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\Common > Files\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\Program Files\Zone > Labs\ZoneAlarm\MailFrontier;C:\cygwin\bin -------^^^^^^^^^ Warning Will Robinson, ZoneAlarm could cause problems; also the GTK stuff w= hich does have some common dlls with Cygwin but compiled for MingW... but from y= our report none of this seems to be causing the problem. [snip] > I created an environment variable named CYGWIN and set its value to > ntsec tty Not needed. > ran ssh-host-config and answered yes to all questions including > privilege separation > When asked for the value of CYGWIN I again typed ntsec tty Again, not needed (those are the defaults). > At this point I can start the sshd service (cygrunsrv -S sshd) but if I > try to login (ssh localhost) I get a password prompt and it fails. How it fails? Have you tried `ssh -vvv localhost`? Do the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files exist? and is your user in the firs= t one? > So, I made a new user named sshdproc, gave it the administrators > password, and put it in the administrators group and gave it the > following rights: ... > now I can start the sshd service, it runs as sshdproc, but still when I > ssh localhost I get prompted and my password fails You didn't solve the first problem and just went looking for more? > so I ssh-user-config >=20 > still no joy..... >=20 > Can someone please give me some advice on where to go from here. I don't > know what else to try and I don't know how to troubleshoot why my > password is failing to authenticate. Just to make sure, the server does ask for the password 3 times? and it rej= ects it (look in the Windows events, if you are not using syslog, sshd leaves a message saying it rejected an invalid password, or invalid user). Your user is local, not a domain user, right? Post the result of the `ssh -vvv your-user@localhost`, it may show the prob= lem in detail. --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/