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:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=RphhwsIAPKpSAgOY gCPnJsxqBzz8Jh7aRRA0vWnvw39+vsgYvPD+oRQRSR4K+qY0iEGxAQIPd1qRVWKB RffMT0OluK06eWZ0zLncd6SKjOztt4SP4kL3lPQm0Lp2Yj8d1ny8U1xbTgNjT3gr kSp06F9WlDxnSRBqsyYsSs1TRTA= 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:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=eRXtDvF6vC52Ayu878Ps5t lcXCI=; b=XZJ/ohX08KQ3x1oLSTNgDV4aeGMLOslQgmjVjrkfBZAIuwXmHslpIV w59bZUgBjuWJcexB5jfTM8zprxVFob6k5ff7XznMjoDYjU7BFkhsTmH159RSiABR RKCgEk1veZRIFii2VfbIyXP2kjk0fUaMbcs/LSNZuwy6FUgh21w8s= 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=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SCAM_SUBJECT autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173025pub.verizon.net Message-id: <532786A6.5080402@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:35:02 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 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> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 3/17/2014 7:22 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Lord Laraby writes: > >> That's interesting. sshd-host-config gave me only sshd as a privileged >> user name, cyg_server is already taken by a non-prvileged user >> connected to the cygserver service. >> Also, at no time does mkgroup create a group called root. > > That suggests an earlier (Cygwin-install-time) error, doesn't it? > > I should have said I did exactly _no_ group/permission by-hand > fiddling to get the setup I sent. All happened auto-magically as a > result of basic install. Looking at my download area, I see I > installed cygwin, cygrunsrv and openssh all as part of my initial > install. I can't immediately detect any sign of what initialisations > ran in what order -- /etc/sshd_config was built about an hour after > the downloads. . . Right. '/etc/sshd_config' is built by 'ssh-host-config'. It will create the 'sshd' user for those requesting privilege separation and 'cyg-server' as the privileged user to run the 'sshd' service under. All this is done as part of the 'ssh-host-config' script. If this script isn't run, then obviously the 'sshd' service won't start. That's not say that it will always just start when 'ssh-host-config' is run. But that's the intent and the blueprint for debugging problems. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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