X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Copfilter: Client is part of local network, skipped Spamassassin X-Copfilter: Sender is in whitelist, skipped SpamAssassin From: Matthias Meyer To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: start ssh port forwarding at boot time Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:45:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200806152323 DOT 12778 DOT Matthias DOT Meyer AT gmx DOT li> <200806160024 DOT 16757 DOT Matthias DOT Meyer AT gmx DOT li> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806161945.22923.Matthias.Meyer@gmx.li> X-Copfilter-Originating-IP: 192.168.0.98 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Am Montag 16 Juni 2008 schrieb René Berber: > Matthias Meyer wrote: > > [snip] > > $ cygrunsrv -I forward -p /usr/bin/ssh -a "-v -f -2 -N -L 5729:localhost:5729 user AT myhost DOT tld" -u root -w password > > $ cygrunsrv -S forward > > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069: > > Der Dienst konnte wegen einer fehlerhaften Anmeldung nicht gestartet werden. > > > > which means in english: > > The service could not be started because of an incorrect registration. > > But I'm sure. Username and password are correct. > > User means Windows user, not root. > > Actually there is another way to do the same, instead of running the > service as your Windows user (the one that has ~/.ssh/), you > can pass the -i /path/to/your/home/.ssh/id_dsa (or id_rsa) to ssh. > > Snippet from man ssh: > > -i identity_file > Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for Thanks René This as well as: ln -fs /home/root/.ssh/known_hosts /etc/ssh_known_hosts Now it is running! I will try autossh, as recommended by Andrew. Thanks again Matthias -- Don't Panic -- 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/