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On 1/29/2013 8:14 PM, misterblinky wrote:
> I installed cygwin on my windows 7 64-bit machine with openSSH and openSSL,
> nothing else.
>
> I then install sshd via ssh-host-config. I have tried with privilege
> separation and without it.

best way is with separation

> The end result is the same: I cannot start sshd
> as a service (via net start sshd). When I do, I get the message "The CYGWIN
> sshd service could not be started."

I agree MS is a disaster as log message ..

>
> The messages I've gotten in /var/log/sshd.log has varied. Most often, I've
> gotten the message "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or
> world-writable". But I just did another clean install of cygwin and went
> through the process again and there are no messages in sshd.log though the
> server reports as usual that it cannot be started. (NOTE: I'm not suggesting
> that the results change even though i go through the same steps -- I'm
> trying different combinations of suggestions found on the web, sometimes
> with slightly different results, but always with the sshd server not
> starting.)
>
> I've removed and clean installed cygwin probably 30 times, trying different
> tweaks.
>
> Here are some more details:
>
> In ssh-host-config interaction, I chose to create the privileged users
> cyg_server. After installing, as expected cyg_server is the owner of these
> files/dirs:
>
> /var/empty
> /etc/ssh*
>
> Also, I changed permissions to /var/log and /var/log/sshd.log to 777 just to
> ensure that access to this wasn't blocked. I also tried various options
> (like chown-ing these to cyg_server).
>
> The service is configured to run under .\cyg_server with the proper
> password.
>
> I always install cygwin as "Administrator" and I open my cygwin console as
> "Administrator".
>
> whoami gives me my windows login name as expected. However, NOT as expected
> the "groups <my-id>" command doesn't say that I'm in the Administrator
> group, which I am. It shows only "Domain Users". I've tried some workarounds
> suggested for "Domain Users" and none have succeeded

what about just "groups" ?

>
> I've worked at this for 3 days (!!) and now I'm just dizzy and need some
> knowledgable help.
>
> thanks in advance for your time/thoughts
>

see
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

please post the "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" output,
just to see if something else is wrong.


As you are a "Domain User" I will not be surprised if some Domain policy
is blocking you.




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