Larry, thanks for your reply. I am using windows 7. I've tried changing ownership of /var/empty to cyg_server, but this doesn't help.
FYI my "Fix" only worked for a day before failing again. Now I'm back to square one. -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/ssh-logon-failure-tp57002p104251.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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