Thanks for responding so quickly. In the security log I can see it has been assigned the privilege SeTcbPrivilege. Security log entry:
Special privileges assigned to new logon. Subject: Security ID: BUILDSERVER\cygwin_sshd Account Name: cygwin_sshd Account Domain: BUILDSERVER Logon ID: 0x12c1c4 Privileges: SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege SeTcbPrivilege SeSecurityPrivilege SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege SeLoadDriverPrivilege SeBackupPrivilege SeRestorePrivilege SeDebugPrivilege SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege SeImpersonatePrivilege In User Rights Assignment it has the following privileges: Act as part of the operating system Adjust memory quotas for a process Logon as a service Replace a process level token Thanks, Mark >Does the account have TCB rights? That's required to run LSA auth. >Same for method 3, btw. > > >Corinna > >-- >Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to >Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com >Red Hat > >On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mark Pattie <markpat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed Cygwin and am running sshd successfully. The > permission required for the sshd service account "create a token > object" is not permitted to be granted to any accounts in my > organization. As such I have decided to use LSA based on Method 2 on > the following page: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html. > > I had succesfully tested ssh authentication with a public/private > certificate pair prior to running /usr/bin/cyglsa-config to install > LSA. I ran the script, removed the "create a token object" permission > and rebooted the server. Now I cannot authenticate using the > public/private keys. I receive the following error in the Windows > event log: > > sshd: PID 2780: fatal: seteuid 1003: Operation not permitted > > When I add the permission back to the service account and restart sshd > the public/private key authentication works again > > Any help would be great > > Thanks, > Mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple