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Re: FW: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate


What's your trouble?

2009/6/12 David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>:
> cygwin:
>
> I installed a fresh copy of Cygwin and a fresh copy of the Cygwin
> OpenSSH service on a fresh installation of Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
> 32-bit yesterday:
>
> 1. ?Download Cygwin Setup to C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe.
>
> 2. ?Run Cygwin Setup:
>
> ? ?a. ?Install from Internet (default).
>
> ? ?b. ?C:\cygwin root directory (default).
>
> ? ?c. ?Install for all users (default).
>
> ? ?d. ?Unix/ binary default text file type (default).
>
> ? ?e. ?C:\cygwin\setup local package directory (default).
>
> ? ?f. ?Direct connection to Internet (default).
>
> ? ?g. ?ftp://mirrors.kernel.org download site.
>
> ? ?h. ?Select source packages to match base/ default packages.
>
> ? ?i. ?Create Desktop and Start menu shortcuts.
>
> 3. ?Start Cygwin Bash Shell, then exit it.
>
> 4. ?Run Cygwin Setup again:
>
> ? ?a-g. ?Same as above.
>
> ? ?h. ?Select 'openssh' package. ?Setup will select dependencies.
> Select source packages for all of these.
>
> ? ?i. ?No need to recreate shortcuts.
>
> 5. ?Start Cygwin Bash Shell and wrestle with ssh-host-config, 'net start
> sshd', and /var/log/sshd.log, rebooting several times along the way for
> the sake of paranoia. ?In the end, I need to make four system changes to
> get sshd working:
>
> ? ?a. ?'chmod 0777 /etc/passwd' -- overkill, so that ssh-host-config
> could create the cyg_server account. ?(I changed permissions to 0644
> afterwards.)
>
> ? ?b. ?'chmod 0777 /etc/group' -- more overkill for ssh-host-config.
> (I changed permissions to 0644 afterwards.)
>
> ? ?c. ?'chmod 0777 /var' -- more overkill for ssh-host-config. ?(I left
> it that way.)
>
> ? ?d. ?'chown cyg_server /var/empty' -- necessary to start the sshd
> service.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> David
>
>
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