Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050907172646.04743e18@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:31:46 -0400 To: Jack Offerman , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: sftp "connection closed" In-Reply-To: <9b83ffd905090709337e1bf8f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <9b83ffd905090709337e1bf8f2 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > >Both were working before. But I realized that I needed to fix >/etc/passwd and /etc/group >for another reason, so I did mkpasswd and mkgroup. Then did >ssh-host-config again. > >With that done, now I am happy to see the ssh user finally become the same user >as the console user. They were different before. On the flip side, >though, sftp doesn't >work anymore. I can do "ssh host" just fine. > >I appreciate your help. I guess you could try starting the server with debugging turned on and see what you get from the logs there. Results from that are usually more instructive. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/