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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:16:15 -0400
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Subject: Re: sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: initgroups: myid: Invalid argument.
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Tim Largy wrote:
> On a Windows XP machine I am able to run sshd but can't log on to my
> local machine (I haven't tried a remote log on):
> 
> $ ssh -1 -i .ssh/my_private_key myid AT localhost
> Connection closed by 127.0.0.1
> 
> In order to view sshd debugging information, I've been running the
> daemon from the command line via "net start sshd '-d'" and after the


You may want to try this again by running a system-owned shell (take a
look in the email archives for a recipe of how to make one of these).
You can then run 'sshd' with debugging flags right at the command
line and see all the debug output there.


> failed ssh login I see the following message in the Windows Event
> Viewer:
> 
> sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: initgroups: myid: Invalid argument."
> 
> where xxxx is the process ID. I've followed the standard Cygwin
> instructions on setting up sshd using ssh-host-config followed by
> ssh-user-config for myid. This machine is part of a domain, and I have
> a fully-populated /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Any ideas?
> Redacted (anonymized) cygcheck -svr output is attached.


Sure looks to me by the message above that your "myid" isn't in
'/etc/groups'.  Did you check that?

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