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Re: ssh problems


At 03:10 AM 7/20/2005, you wrote:
>On Jul 19, Larry Hall wrote:
>> At 02:32 AM 7/19/2005, you wrote:
>> >I did the additional chown, and my username is a mamber of the
>> >administrators group, but I'm still getting the same error (1053).
>> >Is there any log file or something that will hint at the problem?
>> 
>> Only /var/log/sshd.log but this really only provides information if
>> sshd is running.  Worth a check though.
>
>You're right, it's empty.
>
>
>> >The event viewer is not helping --
>> >
>> >  The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be
>> >  found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
>> >  information or message DLL files to display messages from a
>> >  remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to
>> >  retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The
>> >  following information is part of the event: sshd : PID 812 :
>> >  starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation not
>> >  permitted.
>> 
>> So it appears there's still a permission problem.  Try running sshd
>> directly yourself now.  [...]
>
>It did run into permission problems -- the /etc/ssh* keys were not
>readable.  Looks like chowning them didn't help at all.  Finally, I
>resorted to removeing them and re-runnning ssh-host-config to
>regenerate.  Now running sshd directly works, but trying it through
>cygrunsrv still has the same problem...


Hm, this may be getting to the time where you need to try strace or 
build a debug version of cygrunsrv and run gdb on it.  I'm not sure
what's holding you back now...



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