X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,BOTNET,KHOP_SPAMHAUS_DROP,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <5109E15C.20204@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:13:32 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd service will not start on Windows 7 References: <1359486853591-95750.post@n5.nabble.com> <51082B30.3020303@prager.ws> <51082C6E.5020409@gmail.com> <1359549388.9218.YahooMailNeo@web162704.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 1/30/2013 9:13 AM, David Carricajo wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:36 PM, misterblinky wrote: >> >> So ... a) cyg_server *is* in the Administrator group in Windows; and b) I ran the editrights commands just in case. Same deal. "CYGWIN sshd service could not be started". >> >> Oddly, "groups cyg_server" returns "None root" -- cygwin doesn't think it's in the administrator group. >> >> thanks for your thoughts ... any further suggestions? >> > > The mmc "Event viewer" under the label System should give you more > information about the offending service. If you installed cygwin and > then created the user cyg_server, then you should check if it's > available in /etc/passwd (most probably it's there). Can you start the > process by issuing the command '/usr/sbin/sshd'? Please don't attempt this if you don't know what you're doing. You can't start sshd from a normal command line without causing problems for the service unless you start it from a window that's owned by cyg_server. If you don't know what I'm talking about and can't figure it out by looking in the archives and/or googling, then I recommend you don't try starting 'sshd' directly. -- 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