X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <476E92A7.CDBA3245@dessent.net> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:53:59 -0800 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Struggling to setup sshd with Windows Vista References: <96c450350712230222s3549d224m75974cd082bf71a3 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <96c450350712230448q14dc0ac3s34e85de08d9b6e9f AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <476E5B79 DOT 32FAFCE AT dessent DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > $ /usr/sbin/sshd -d -d -d -D > > > > That's a very bad idea. > > Kevin is obviously trying to debug things (noticed the triple "-d"?) > so this is a really good idea... I know what the sshd options mean, and no, it's really not a good idea in the slightest. Trying to debug sshd by starting it as a user is all kinds of wrong. All the file permissions will be wrong, so even if things are perfectly setup correctly, this will fail. If you modify the permissions to make this "debugging" work then the service will then fail to start, and as I already said normal users lack the required privileges to switch user context so this "debugging" will do nothing but prove you can break things. It's a thoroughly bad idea unless you are running a SYSTEM-owned shell. Brian -- 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/