X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_21,J_CHICKENPOX_66,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Wilfried Subject: Re: How can I ssh to a Windows box? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:41:38 +0100 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote: > ... > I've discovered that if I kill the demon, > I still get timeout from the outside, > but connection refused locally. If you can login to ssh locally but not from the outside, perhaps your Windows' firewall is blocking this. > I haven't been able to restart the demon: > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writeable. You must give the files the correct ownership and access rights: In cygwin, issue: cd / chmod og+w /tmp touch /var/log/sshd.log chown system:system /var/log/sshd.log /var/empty /etc/ssh_h* chmod 755 /var/empty Define the service with the command cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd Start the service by cygrunsrv -S sshd Stop the service by cygrunsrv -E sshd Hope this helps. -- Wilfried Hennings -- 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/