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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:33:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Christopher Cobb <ccobb AT email DOT com>
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Subject: Re: sshd automatically close connection after successful login
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:

> Christopher Cobb <ccobb <at> email.com> writes:
> 
> > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Aug 19 05:19, Mike Skallas wrote:
> > > > I had this same problem when I re-installed cygwin today. Took me a good 
> > > > hour to figure out what the hell was going on.
> > > 
> > > Folks, does anybody of you actually *read* this mailing list or, FWIW,
> > > at least the package announcements?  This is the pointer to my OpenSSH
> > > 3.9p1-1 announcement from *yesterday*:
> > > 
> > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00633.html
> > > 
> > > *shaking head*
> > > Corinna
> > 
> > Thank you, Corinna, for pointing out this information:
> > 
> > "Thanks to an early bug report on the cygwin mailing list, I found that
> > you *must* add the -r option when starting the sshd daemon, if you want
> > to use privilege separation. ..."
> 
> I modified line 556 of ssh-host-config to be:
> 
> 	if cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "CYGWIN sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a "-D -r" -u
> sshd_server -w "${_password}" -e "CYGWIN=${_cygwin}"
> 
> Notice the -r.  
> 
> I restarted sshd, but I still get:
> 
>     $ ssh Administrator AT momtst5
>     Administrator AT momtst5's password: 
>     Connection to momtst5 closed.
> 
> The connection closes immediately as others have mentioned.
> 
> Is that the form of -r that you mean?

Yes, but you have to reinstall the sshd service, not just restart sshd, 
i.e.,

cygrunsrv -E sshd; cygrunsrv -R sshd; ssh-host-config; cygrunsrv -S sshd

HTH,
	Igor
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