X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Message-id: <4E701EF8.6050604@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:26:48 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied References: In-reply-to: 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 On 9/13/2011 2:38 PM, Larson, Donald (Don) wrote: > Folks, > I have searched this and I see it has come up several times and I really > don't want to frustrate anyone, but I have read the messages and was not > able to see what the actual answer was. > > I understand "su" does not work – answer use ssh. SSHD cannot start > because user sshd cannot login. I run login sshd type in the password and > then I get the message. The shell set for user 'sshd' in '/etc/passwd' is '/bin/false' which means that user can't be used as a regular user to login with. > Any help is appreciated. If your problem is that the 'sshd' service will not start, then you're better off putting in a problem report. > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple