RE: problems starting sshd - again

["Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB" <Mike dot Kenny at bcx dot co dot za>]

> Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB wrote:
> 
> > I know this has been on the list previously, but I have searched the
FAQ
> > and recent archives and cannot find the relevant references. I have
> > found some relating to permissions, but these don't address my
issue.
> > Anyway, my XP system died and I have had to re-install windoze. So
as
> > this was a fresh install I obtained a later version (1.5.12) of
cygwin
> > than the year or so old version I had. I had sshd working with the
older
> > version of cygwin but I do not want to regress that version. The new
> > version of cygwin installed fine, I then executed
> 
> You should read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README for details on
> sshd.  You will find the following passage:
> 
> If you start sshd as deamon via cygrunsrv.exe you MUST give the
> "-D" option to sshd. Otherwise the service can't get started at all.
> 
> > $ ssh-host-config
> > I responded 'yes' whenever prompted (later I tried without privilege
> > separation with the same result)
> > $ cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd.exe
> 
> You should let ssh-host-config install the service.  Your install
> command above is wrong, you need "-a -D" to pass -D to sshd.
> ssh-host-config ought to take care of everything for you if you let
it.
> 

[mikek] Brian, thanks for this. Executing ssh-host-config -y followed by
cygrunsrv -S sshd worked perfectly. The only difference I detected to
what
I had been doing was that it now queried me about ntsec.

Anyway working now, thanks.

Mike

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