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Re: cygwin-host-setup does not install sshd


>admin wrote:
>
>> when i run net start sshd i get a syntax error and it complains it cant find specified path.
>
>Could you be any more vague?  What does the error say exactly?  What
>does the event log say?  What does /var/log/sshd.log say?

sorry, should have known better:

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 aimeMasdinso@dindoze ~
$ ssh-host-config
Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes
Generating /etc/ssh_config file
Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes
Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
For more info on privilege separation read /usr/share/doc/openssh/README.privsep
.

Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes
Generating /etc/sshd_config file

Host configuration finished. Have fun!

JaimeMasdinso@dindoze ~
$ net start sshd
System error 3 has occurred.

The system cannot find the path specified.


JaimeMasdinso@dindoze ~
$ nano -w /var/log/
lastlog         setup.log       setup.log.full

JaimeMasdinso@dindoze ~
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as you can see i dont have a sshd.log

>
>> it doesnt ask me to compile the sshd binary and it doesnt offer to install sshd as a system service.
>
>Compile the sshd binary?  No package does that.  sshd.exe is installed
>when you install the openssh package, there is no compilation to speak
>of.

i believe compile was the wrong word.  i remember when i did this successfully one of the yes/no questions refered to installing the sshd.exe file.  as you can see its not there

>
>The ssh-host-config script should normally offer to install the service,
>but if there is an existing service called sshd (possibly a remnant from
>an old install that was not completely removed) it will not try to
>overwrite it.
>

that sounds possible.  i tried removing everything called cygwin from the windows registry after i deleted cygwin from my disk to avoid this type of thing, but i guess that didnt work.
 




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