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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:57:14 -0400
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If you could repeat the information below for a machine with the latest
Cygwin and OpenSSH, along with your '/etc/passwd' and 'cygcheck -srv'
output, that may be helpful.

On 3/11/2014 9:36 AM, Ernesto Puig Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Hi Larry,
>
> After analyzing the debug information you recommended, I was still not able
> to find the reason of the error message during the ssh login. Below the
> output of the commands after the login.
>
> $ ssh root AT winsrv2008
> root AT winsrv2008's password: ******
> Last login: Fri Mar  7 16:16:51 2014 from  hostname dot com
> Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address
> entering /etc/profile
>
> root AT winsrv2008 ~
> $ pwd
> /home/root
>
> root AT winsrv2008 ~
> $ ls -l
> total 88
> -rw-r--r--  1 root Administrators 88080 Feb 27 18:00 cygcheck.out
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 root Administrators     0 Jan 22 15:47 perl5
>
> root AT winsrv2008 ~
> $ ls -dl .*
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 root Administrators    0 Feb 28 15:52 .
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 root None              0 Feb 28 15:40 ..
> -rw-------  1 root Administrators 7953 Mar  7 16:26 .bash_history
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root Administrators 1494 Feb 28 15:52 .bash_profile
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root Administrators 6054 Jan 15 11:14 .bashrc
> -rw-------  1 root Administrators   87 Jan 21 09:32 .cvspass
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root Administrators 1919 Jan 15 11:14 .inputrc
> -rw-------  1 root Administrators   49 Feb 18 09:54 .lesshst
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root Administrators 1236 Jan 15 11:14 .profile
> drwx------+ 1 root Administrators    0 Mar  3 08:56 .ssh
>
> root AT winsrv2008 ~
> $ id
> uid=500(root) gid=513(None) groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)
>
> root AT winsrv2008 ~
> $ getfacl -d /home/root
> # file: /home/root
> # owner: root
> # group: Administrators
> default:user::rwx
> default:group::r-x
> default:other:r-x
>
> root AT winsrv2008 ~
> $ cacls "c:\cygwin\home\root"
> c:\cygwin\home\root WINSRV2008\Administrator:F
>                      BUILTIN\Administrators:R
>                      Everyone:R
>                      CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)F
>                      CREATOR GROUP:(OI)(CI)(IO)R
>                      Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)R
>
> The output of ssh -v -v -v ...
> (See attached file: ssh-v-v-v.out)
> The debug info of sshd in /var/log/messages ...
> (See attached file: sshd_dbg)
>
> The only customized change in /etc/sshd_config is the debug flag one:
> LogLevel DEBUG3
>
> Thanks,  Ernesto.
>
> -------------------------
> On 2/27/2014 2:07 PM, Ernesto Puig Rodriguez wrote:
>
> When I log in into my Windows Server 2008 R2 using ssh, I get the following
> error:
>
> $ ssh root AT winsrv2008
> root AT winsrv2008's password: ********
> Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address
>
> This is independent on whether I log in with the root user who is mapped to
> the Administrator in the /etc/passwd or not using another user of the group
> Administrators. The sshd daemon is able to log me in and everything seems
> fine, but this error is telling me something is wrong in my machine which I
> was not able to find till now. I have also re-installed cygwin and upgraded
> ssh with the level OpenSSH_6.5p1-1 without success.
>
>
> What does 'pwd' say after you login? Does '/home/root' exist? If so, what
> are the permissions it shows (for each of ls -l, getfacl, cacls)?
>
> Looking at the output of ssh -v -v -v may help.  Setting up a sshd service
> to run debug and looking at that output will probably be more help.
>
> --
> Larry
>
>
>
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