Re: sshd must be restarted

[Chris Taylor <chris at equate dot dyndns dot org>]

Top-posting reformatted.

Ken Senior wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2006, Chris Taylor <chris@XXXXXX.XXXX.XXXX> said:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

> > Ken Senior wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know why after a Windows XP reboot one must restart
> > > the SSH daemon in order to allow incoming ssh?  The process is
> > > automatically running after a reboot but all incoming SSH from
> > > remote clients are terminated with the following message being
> > > displayed on the remote client:
> > >
> > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> > >
> > > Restarting the daemon, either in Windows services or on the bash
> > > command line, fixes the problem allowing in ssh traffic once
> > > again. ??
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ken Senior
> >
> > Never had to do that here .. (otherwise known as WFM)
> >
> > Please follow the instructions here, with emphasis on *attaching* 
> > cygcheck.out :
> >
> > > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > Also, if you could include details on how you installed the service
> > - especially if you didn't use the standard method.

> Great. I have made said attachment.  One interesting oddity about my 
> installation is that I have two usernames which are identical, one
> for our Windows domain and one for the administrator account on my
> PC.  I made sure to give both accounts admin privileges locally on
> the machine, but that seems not always to work.  I also noticed when
> I installed cygwin (yesterday) that the installation correctly
> recognized both accounts and indeed created two entries in
> /etc/passwd.  I was way impressed in my minimal IT experience.
> However, I have noticed that various pieces of the installation were
> confused about what was my home directory.  Some packages (SSH) think
> the home page should be /home/senior whereas the default bash shell
> thinks it's located in /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
> Settings/senior.DOMAIN.
>
> Now, regarding installation of the sshd service.  I simply ran the 
> '/usr/bin/ssh-host-config -y' command followed by 'cygrunsrv -S sshd'
>
>
> This all sounds like a cruel permissions problem, yuck!
>
> -K

That would be the problem.
Specifically, ssh is taking the username, and taking the first match in 
/etc/passwd
If you need both users available, rename one, otherwise, use just the 
local users in /etc/passwd

Use mkpasswd -l for that.
Do the same with mkgroups, so as to ensure that everything matches up.


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Chris

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