Re: [ssh-l] Cygwin sshd problem, please help

hi Andrew,

by default the administrator does not have all the administrative rights.
The rights required by the cygwin process are
1. Act as part of operating system
2. replace process level token
3. Increase quotas
4. Logon as service (if used via service manager)

for more information, read /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-x.x.x.README

also make sure that the permissions of your private key is correct

You may want to look at this page

http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp

hope this helps.

cheers
Adam

ST-JEAN, ANDREW wrote:

> I'm trying to run Cygwin sshd on a Windows NT 4 Workstation machine as a
>
> service using FireDaemon and it's not working! I can start sshd as a
> service and see that it's running using the taskmanager but I get the
> following error when trying to connect to it from a remote client:
>
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
> I'm using version 1.3.9 of Cygwin which includes version 3.0.2p1 of
> OpenSSH. The remote ssh client is version 3.0.1. Something odd I noticed
>
> is that I cannot run the sshd service as the system account. When I try
> to do this, the FireDaemon process starts but not the sshd process. In
> this case, when I try to connect using a remote client, I get a
> 'connection refused' error. I need to specify a user account for the
> service to run as in order to get the sshd process to start. The account
>
> I used is the account I installed Cygwin as (this account has
> administrator rights on the box). Here is the string I used to install
> the FireDaemon service:
>
> firedaemon -i sshd "d:\cygwin\bin" "d:\cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe" "-D" n
> 0 0 n y
>
> I've also tried it without the -D option with the same result.
>
> If I start the sshd process from a Cygwin command prompt, then I can
> connect from a remote client but only using public key authentication.
> Password authentication fails saying that the password is incorrect.
>
> If anyone can help me with this, I'd be very grateful. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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