X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=bIkXw Fh7c/ZD00QD19PmacFwBTUW97orbuLCDVZlF5AWRp5i2RvedoVdOI1E0HipIgfnO SdeWSTSe+Uhym9Pmdk5UhoudE7M1gGsntYJi/nV3MJ0oy2s8NFK+XETQeisJMjr7 o6skh9fYWnaYAmrbomf3kRowLn3LWSi9+MwnBQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=Ma6NC4H9nfn 1NHvDxulW3c4QPqs=; b=Ze9wgPp/2KdlLh+Vgj0C73Ydq9AaZIPuj8c8/Gdsa7h cQGrnIUbaHOBGLTPcUyucvhBHtYSR7MKEafSVwF23UeIKoIG/AzFGZOSiZMcoRsF b+bz8mj1R2Y1WbEeX7/hP/xIrP1zQUMo7rJPKbd5ROEsodQ4uP8g3cKJqFjxQef4 = 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SCAM_SUBJECT,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Silently configure sshd fails via system account References: <5307BB89 DOT 80405 AT cse DOT yorku DOT ca> <5307BDDA DOT 4040309 AT cygwin DOT com> <530B6ED1 DOT 2060003 AT cse DOT yorku DOT ca> From: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:56:06 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Lord Laraby's message of "Mon\, 17 Mar 2014 16\:23\:49 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b33 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.60, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes Lord Laraby writes: > I cannot understand how to do what it wants in order to start. Any > help would be appreciated. I can send cygcheck.out if desired. This is > Windows 8.1 ver 6.3 -- 64-bit. Cygwin (64-bit) is installed in a USB > hard drive K:\cygwin and I recently did an update by running setup and > not selecting anything new. I have run sshd successfully on Win7 > computers and older. This is a new one for me. Same platform as you. Here are my (possibly relevant) data for comparison: > ls -ld /var/empty drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cyg_server root 0 Jan 3 11:36 /var/empty/ > egrep cyg_server /etc/passwd cyg_server:unused:1003:513:Privileged server,U-luther\cyg_server,S-1-5-21-3264347833-3381411623-2398912269-1003:/var/empty:/bin/bash > egrep root /etc/group root:S-1-5-32-544:0: > egrep S-1-5-32-544 /etc/passwd Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -- 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