X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <47C4A0DB.6020007@cygwin.com> <6ADC05D7-7602-4123-81EF-1DE06D26E91F@von-campe.com> Subject: RE: How do I run sshd as a particular user? Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:28:02 -0000 Message-ID: <006301c890e8$4fa2f070$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: 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 Alfred von Campe wrote on 28 March 2008 12:30: > I have tried various ways to get the sshd service started as a domain > user (instead of the default local user "sshd_server") and can not > get it to work. What is the correct syntax to specify a domain user > with cygrunsrv? This is what I have tried: > > cygrunsrv -I sshd -u "DOMAINNAME\USERNAME" -w PASSWORD -d "CYGWIN > sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a -D -e "CYGWIN=bin tty smbntsec" -y tcpip That's the windows domain user syntax sure enough. There aren't any shell metacharacters in the password by any chance are there? > This successfully installs the service, and if I look at it in the > Services control panel, it shows the correct username (DOMAIN > \USERNAME), but if I try to start the service I always get the error > "The Cygwin sshd service in Local Computer started and then > stopped". If I substitute sshd_server for the user and supply the > correct password, the sshd service starts correctly. But I want to > start the service as a domain user I suppose it might also be worth turning on all the auditing in the security log to see if it's a login failure or not. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/