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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:24:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: PolarStorm <developer AT clinicsearch DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Silently configure sshd fails via system account
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Paul Griffith wrote
> ...
> /usr/bin/ssh-host-config --yes --cygwin ntsec --user cyg_server --pwd blah
> ...

Just a few things...

1) Don't do that (manually). 
First of all, "ntsec" is deprecated. Second, there are a lot of strange
issues when 
using "--yes", just answer the questions manually, especially since you
don't need 
all those keys just to have ssh work. 

2) Make sure you run the ssh-host-config from an "administrator: cygwin
shell.

3) Check your /etc/sshd-config for: "UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox" which
is 
the new default. The ssh-host-config script has a bug on line 169 that
attempts 
to set this to "no", but where the regex fails. (I told people in  THIS
<http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/CSIH-SSH-setup-script-problems-on-W81-64-tp106953.html>  
nabble post, but I 
don't think it ever reached the main mailing list.)

4) The sshd user pas-wor-d is set to expire by default after 42 days, in
Windows 8.1. 
Fix it if you're using that.






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