Re: sshd as a service

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:14:11AM -0600, Brian Huddleston wrote:
> We're trying to get sshd running on a Windows 2000 server box.  We're using
> the latest version of everything (as of yesterday morning).
> 
> We're trying to get DSA authentication setup and we seem to have succeeded.
> *If* we launch sshd from the command line, the DSA authentication works as
> expected and we can login without a password.
> 
> Once we install it as a service and try again we get prompted for the
> password.  I assume it is some
> sort of permission problem (since sshd behaves properly from the
> commandline),
> 
> *except*
> 
> We have StrictModes set to no in /etc/sshd_config
> *and*
> we only set CYGWIN to binmode tty when prompted by the ssh configuration
> script, so there shouldn't be any NT security issues involved.  We even
> manually gave SYSTEM Full Control over the entire cygwin directory and it
> didn't seem to work.

You *must* set ntsec to get it reliably working as a service.
User context switches w/o providing a password only works with
ntsec.

Corinna

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