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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:25:15 -0400
From: Evan Cooch <cooch17 AT verizon DOT net>
Subject: Re: sshd install problems | WinXP Pro system
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>
> > As above - if not, then why specify it in
> > http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html
>
>That page is made by somebody that is not in the Cygwin team, it may 
>be correct
>or not (the points marked as "not necessary" by Thorsten are really not
>necessary but they don't interfere) but you are asking the Cygwin list not the
>author of that page, so:

Fair enough - whats bizarre then is why 90% or so of the Google hits 
out there point to this page, and not to anything on the Cygwin list 
(that I found). Perhaps this is the sort of page the someone who is 
involved with Cygwin should put together, given the frequency with 
which it seems to come up.



>Follow the instructions in C:\Cygwin\usr\share\doc\Cygwin\openssh.README, that
>is the official documentation.

OK - thanks. I'll have a look.



>Other than that, look at your event log and see if there is any further
>information about the failed service startup.

Will do.



>You mention "host-ssh-config", is that a typo? the script is named
>"ssh-host-config".

Whoops - yup.


>  Its failure is very strange, perhaps you have a corrupted
>installation, you are not using text mode, are you? (in setup you 
>have to select
>if Cygwin is installed for all users or not, text- or bin-mode, best 
>results are
>with "for all" and "binmode (a.k.a. Unix)").

Selected for all users. Was never asked about text- or bin-mode. 
Re-installed twice on suspicion it might be corruption problem - same 
result on both occasions. It installed fine, but then when running 
ssh-host-config, it simply asked about privelage separation. Nothing more.



>You should run ssh-host-config in debug mode (i.e. ssh-host-config -d) and see
>what was the last thing it did, why did it exit? was there an error message?
>
>HTH


Thanks - I'll follow those suggestions and report back.  


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