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From: "Michael Erdely" <mike AT erdelynet DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <3AA39B73 DOT FEBCB202 AT mindspring DOT com>
Subject: Re: debugging sshd as service
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:14:09 -0500
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How is SSHD installed as a service?  SRVANY?  FireDaemon?

Have you rebooted since changing your System's CYGWIN variable so that the
Service Manager can take the new environment?

Take a look at your NT application log.  If SSHD is ever executed, messages
will show up in the Event Log?

-ME

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Beuning" <bbeuning AT mindspring DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: debugging sshd as service


> I am trying to run sshd as a service.  It is not working.
> All the cygwin tools I have tried are working.  When
> I run sshd from a command prompt, it works fine.
> Starting sshd from the command line, I was able to
> connect with ssh both locally and remotely.
>
> If I use 'net start sshd', it says
>     "The sshd service could not be started"
>     "The service did not report an error"
>     "More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534"
>
> Using the 'services' control panel, it says:
>     "Could not start the sshd service on Local Computer."
>     "The service did not return an error."
>     "This could be an internal Windows error or an internal service
> error."
>
> Anyway, I assume I have set up something wrong.
> sshd sends its output to the syslog facility.
> And from other messages in the e-mail archive, I guess
> these go to the NT event log.  Nothing shows up in the log.
>
> I made a syslog.conf, sending "*.*" to /var/log/messages,
> and started syslogd but nothing showed up there.
>
> Maybe it will work to have the service run 'bash test.sh'
> with test.sh having
>     exec > /trace.txt 2>&1
>     env
>     sshd -d (or strace sshd)
>
> Any ideas about getting error message from sshd when it
> is running as a service would be most helpful!
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Beuning
>
> PS.  Some details about my setup.
>
> This box has Windows 2000 with SP1.  I ran ssh-config
> and then the new ssh-host-config.
>
> I had an old cygwin (b20.1), but removed it from the PATH.
> I did reboot after putting the new cygwin in the PATH (as suggested
> by an article in the e-mail archive).
>
> I set CYGWIN to ntsec, but it worked the same without this set.
>
> I made a new user ID with the four capabilities (part of system,
> change token, and ?) but my usual login already had those capabilities.
> Neither my normal login nor the new one worked.  When I tried the
> two logins I was careful to have the private key file ownership right.
> With ntsec, the private keys were mode 600.
>
> The shhd_config has RSAAuth and PasswordAuth enabled.
>
>
>
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