Re: Privilege separation user sshd does not exist

I have experienced the same situation before and found it to be either:

1. SSHD is using a different config file;
2. SSHD is using NO config file and the priviledge user is compiled in ;
3. Rights on the SSHD_CONFIG file are such that the daemon can't read it..

I'd recommend searching your hard drive and make sure that another
sshd_config doesn't exist.
Also, I don't know what you edited your sshd_config with but notepad (and
some other text editors) have a nasty habit of saving a file with a *.txt
extension and obviously if the file is named sshd_config.txt or similar, the
sshd daemon won't be able to read it and will start up with
no config file at all (in which case #2 above applies)...

Hope this helps..

C. Moody

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Sargent" <rrsarge@ihsmed.com>
To: <ssh@erdelynet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 17:04
Subject: Privilege separation user sshd does not exist

> Hi all,
>
> New user, so please be gentle.
>
> Setup: OpenSSH 3.8.1 on Windows 2000 Server (non-Cygwin)
>
> I was tweaking my sshd_config file and enabled UsePrivilegeSeparation
where
> it had previously been off. I couldn't restart the OpenSSH Server service
> after that and the log said "Privilege separation user sshd does not
exist".
> So I commented it out...same problem. I specified 'UsePrivilegeSeparation
> no' and it's still giving me the same error. Stopped and restarted
service
> after every attempt, same error.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
> Randy
>
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