[ssh-l] sshd is finally working for me

I got sshd working on Cygwin under Windows 2000 after searching the
mailing list archives for various problems. Here is what I discovered:
   
- Install Cygwin for all users. I installed it just for my user. This
  meant the mount table wasn't available for the system
  user. Installing cygwin again fixed the problem.
  
- The trick of running a shell with the "at" command to try things
  manually as the SYSTEM user really helped. BTW, it is possible to
  use bash instead of cmd.
  
- Use "mkgroup -l" instead of "mkpasswd -l" to build the /etc/group
  file. Sounds dumb but whenever I did the manual generation I screwed
  it up. Check that the home directory is pointing to the right
  place. I have my home directory as e:/cygwin/home.
  
- Once the sshd service is running, it is possible to log the output
  from the daemon. This helps for fixing ssh problems. Install the
  service like this:
  
cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a "-D -e" -2 /var/log/sshd.log
  
  
 - Ian

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