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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:12:28 -0400
From: Evan Cooch <cooch17 AT verizon DOT net>
Subject: Re: sshd install problems | WinXP Pro system
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>
>Follow the instructions in C:\Cygwin\usr\share\doc\Cygwin\openssh.README, that
>is the official documentation.

OK - have now gone through said README twice. Somewhat helpful, but 
largely obtuse in places.

e.g.,  "If you start sshd as deamon via cygrunsrv.exe you MUST give the
"-D" option to sshd. Otherwise the service can't get started at all."

Meaning, what? You pass -D as an argument when invoking cygrunsrv 
--start sshd? Hmmm...trying that gives the error message that -D is 
not a valid option for sshd - which makes the text in the README hard 
to interpret.



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

Nothing...



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


OK - now I know what you're after. I re-downloaded setup.exe, ran it, 
and tried BOTH text, and binmode (i.e., tried it with text mode - 
then after deleting c:\cygwin, tried again with binmode).

Made no difference. As for a corrupted installation - I tried the 
above procedure using 3 different download mirrors. Made no difference.

Each time when I run ssh-host-config (following a clean install of cygwin), it

1. generates the keys
2. asks about using privilege separation

And thats it - it doesn't ask me for anything else - it doesn't ask 
if I want to create 'sshd' as a local user, or if I want in install 
as a service, or anything after the privilege separation query.

When I run ssh-host-config -d (i.e., in debug mode) as suggested, 
there was nothing obvious about why it exited - there were no error 
messages at all. It simply said I was finished.  Is there a log file 
I should look at (and post here) that might help suss out what its not working?

But, since I can't get the service to start, obvious all is not well.

So, I'm wondering if at this point I should manually do what 
ssh-host-config is apparently refusing to do - if this is an option, 
could someone provide the basic steps?




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