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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I'm trying to set up ssh access to a Windows 2003 server. I am having a 
> problem in that when I ssh to this server it immediately exits and I 
> find the following in /var/log/sshd.log:
> 
>      5 [main] sshd 12912 C:\Cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fatal error - 
> could not load ws2_32, Win32 error 0
> 
> Forgive me I did do some research about setting up ssh on a 2003 server 
> and I believe I've very close to having it set up correctly but I'm 
> still missing something. I created a local sshd_server user and added 
> things like "Act as part of the operating system", "Replace process 
> level token", etc. I did not see a setting for "Increase quota". Note 
> that I am using a local sshd_server users (i.e. <machine>\sshd_server) 
> as the logon for the sshd service. I don't believe I'm using privilege 
> separation.
> 
> I had to use mmc and a Group Policy editor for the domain to add this 
> local user into the rights at the domain level before this would work. 
> Still when I try to ssh in I get a password prompt but after that the 
> above gets written into the sshd.log and the prompt returns.
> 
> Note that I also use this local sshd_server user for inetd so that rsh 
> can and does work. Insecure I know and I'd like to switch this client 
> over to using all ssh but I gotta get it working for them.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Why not use ssh-host-config to set up sshd?  It will create sshd_server for
you in the proper way.

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