Subject: Re: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003
From: Chap Harrison <[email-masked]>
To: David Christensen <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:15:53 -0500
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

It finally turned out to be that /etc/hosts.deny was too restrictive:

ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY

I ran ssh-host-config, but did not run ssh-user-config.  Must have  
overlooked that step.  Perhaps that would have taken care of it?

Thanks,
Chap

On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:17 PM, David Christensen wrote:

> Chap Harrison wrote:
>> Trying to connect with PuTTY gives a "server unexpectedly closed
>> connectin" error.
>
> Have you run ssh-host-config?  ssh-user-config?
>
> Have you opened up port 22 in your firewall?
>
> Have you tried telnet to port 22 from localhost and from another host?
>
>
> HTH,
>
> David
>
>

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