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RE: ERROR: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated


I did not add the password to the registry (not knowingly in any case). When we initially setup, we logged in by providing the password and used ssh-copy-id to setup the key.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gluszczak, Glenn [mailto:Glenn.Gluszczak@dell.com] 
Sent: October-17-17 5:11 PM
To: Fournier, Danny G
Subject: RE: ERROR: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated

Good detective work.   I need to think about why key only authentication would cause an impact.

Did you add the password to the registry?
(Log in as the user and the run "passwd -R").

To get proper identity from a filesystem basis, a process still needs to log in.
SSH uses a behind the scene login if it finds the password.  If you log in directly, it doesn't need to access the registry one.

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Fournier, Danny G [mailto:Danny.Fournier@dfo-mpo.gc.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 3:32 PM
To: Gluszczak, Glenn; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: ERROR: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated

Here's what I just did:

1. created new local administrator account 2. ran mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd 3. removed all instances of server name in /etc/passwd (ie. MYSERVERNAME+) 4. remotely connected successfully 5. successfully ran schtasks, it listed all jobs configured 

I just retried with the other user, where I connect specifying a shared key and got the error message.

For good measure, I changed the password on the problematic user, connected directly without the key and provided the password. I then ran schtasks and it ran fine. It listed all the jobs configured.

It would seem that our issue is related to connecting over SSH using a shared key.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gluszczak, Glenn [mailto:Glenn.Gluszczak@dell.com]
Sent: October-17-17 11:08 AM
To: Fournier, Danny G
Subject: RE: ERROR: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated


Does ssh with Administrator and running schtasks fail as well?

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