X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) In-Reply-To: <3ACC8107-177F-453D-BB3B-76903104B648@paidtech.com> References: <3ACC8107-177F-453D-BB3B-76903104B648 AT paidtech DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Raymond Blum Subject: Correction to: error starting sshd as a service Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 00:04:51 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Pasted in the wrong cygrunsrv output, sorry, The output in the current state of affairs is $cygrunsrv -Q sshd Service : sshd Display name : CYG SSHD Current State : Stopped Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D ---Raymond On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Raymond Blum wrote: Hi My Win2003 server sshd stopped working last night, from the time of day I assume that it was an MS Windows update and in hindsight perhaps windows FW had started blocking it and it was reparable but... I decided instead to upgrade my Cygwin installation to the current release (bad move) I have it at the point where I can run sshd as the sshd_server user ("/usr/sbin/sshd -D") but when I start it as a service I get the message in the event viewer "The sshd service was unable to log on as .\sshd_server with the currently configured password due to the following error: The parameter is incorrect." I tried, against popular advice in the archives, to run as the local system account and turn off privilege separation in sshd_config but while the service started I then got the error "seteuid 1003 no such process" in the application event log every time I tried to ssh into the machine. So, I abandoned that effort and put it back to running as sshd_server. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, checked the password for the user several times. I have also googled and tried various advice offered on different pages for the last 6 hours. So, I decided that it is time to ask for help. Here is what I have from cygrunsrv $cygrunsrv -L sshd cygserver $cygrunsrv -Q sshd Service : sshd Display name : CYG SSHD Current State : Started Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D I have no idea what parameter it is that's invalid (or even what command it is a parameter to) - ie a parameter to cygrunsrv or a parameter to sshd. I have the machine running sshd -D from a session logged in as sshd_server but obviously this is not acceptable in the long term. Thanks for reading this far, any advice or ideas? ---Raymond -- 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/ -- 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/