X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EF29183.8060408@shaddybaddah.name> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:10:11 +1100 From: Shaddy Baddah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: sftp-server -h succeeds on cmd, fails on mintty References: <4EF28545 DOT 4090901 AT shaddybaddah DOT name> <4EF28709 DOT 8000208 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4EF28709.8000208@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi Larry, On 22/12/11 12:25, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 12/21/2011 8:17 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm experiencing a wider problem with sftp'ing to/from a Cygwin sshd >> service. However as a starting point into debugging, I've identified a >> simple failure in the sftp-server that may give an indication into the >> wider problem. >> >> When I ran just a simple usage argument to sftp-server in a mintty >> session, the command failed: >> >> sbaddah@*********** ~ >> $ /usr/sbin/sftp-server -h; x=$?; echo $x >> 127 > > This works fine for me from mintty. Just a shot in the dark but can > you try it with a local user? How about a local user that's part of > the local Administrators group? Yes, this has made a difference. Thank you. I ran against a local user, although they were not a local administrator. It ran fine: portapps@*********** ~ $ /usr/sbin/sftp-server -h usage: sftp-server [-ehR] [-f log_facility] [-l log_level] [-u umask] I guess that points towards a pseudo terminal handling glitch for a domain user, right? Regards, Shaddy > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple