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Subject: Re: sshd service will not start on Windows 7
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:36 PM, misterblinky <misterblinky AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
> So ... a) cyg_server *is* in the Administrator group in Windows; and b) I ran the editrights commands just in case. Same deal. "CYGWIN sshd service could not be started".
>
> Oddly, "groups cyg_server" returns "None root" -- cygwin doesn't think it's in the administrator group.
>
> thanks for your thoughts ... any further suggestions?
>

The mmc "Event viewer" under the label System should give you more
information about the offending service. If you installed cygwin and
then created the user cyg_server, then you should check if it's
available in /etc/passwd (most probably it's there). Can you start the
process by issuing the command '/usr/sbin/sshd'?, the problem with
/var/empty is because of this
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-02/msg00437.html, you need to change
permissions to all those folders.

Also, you don't need to reinstall sshd at every attempt, you may use
"cygrunsrv --remove sshd"

Regards

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