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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 11:31:54 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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CC: Ville Herva <vherva AT niksula DOT hut DOT fi>
Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin  installation
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ville Herva wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:03:18PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote:
>>
>>>>I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives
>>>>the
>>>>same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>What does /var/log/sshd.log say?
>>
>>It remains empty, on both servers.
>>
>>Based on time stamp, it appears to last touched when I ran sshd from command
>>line. As said, now the sshd is running as a service on an user account. With
>>SYSTEM account, service still fails to start with error code 255. I believe
>>sshd fails to _execute_ for some curious reason (so it doesn't get to open
>>the log), but why?
> 
> 
> IIRC, the default installation of sshd as service used the event log for
> all output, rather than /var/log/sshd.log (though I'm not too sure on this
> one)... 


Right.  But Ville mentioned that he ran sshd with the '-d' flags which
would send diagnostics to /var/log/sshd.log.


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