That's interesting. sshd-host-config gave me only sshd as a privileged user name, cyg_server is already taken by a non-prvileged user connected to the cygserver service. Also, at no time does mkgroup create a group called root. I tried that, but it screwed everything up. Of course, I used Administrators actual group 513, not 544. I will fiddle with /etc/group and see what I can come up with. Ad far as the user name, if it requires cyg_server (not sshd), then I have a serious issue with the other cygwin install as a service tool, "cygserver." The permissions on /var/empty failed everytime. I tried 755, 744, 711, 700, 655, 644, 611. and even 600. No dice. This is the var/empty listing: master@primaryserver ~ $ ls -ld /var/empty drw-------+ 1 Administrators None 0 Mar 17 13:52 /var/empty
I also tried this: master@primaryserver ~ $ ls -ld /var/empty drw-------+ 1 sshd None 0 Mar 17 13:52 /var/empty master@primaryserver ~ $ cygrunsrv -S sshd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Henry S. Thompson <h...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Lord Laraby writes: > >> I cannot understand how to do what it wants in order to start. Any >> help would be appreciated. I can send cygcheck.out if desired. This is >> Windows 8.1 ver 6.3 -- 64-bit. Cygwin (64-bit) is installed in a USB >> hard drive K:\cygwin and I recently did an update by running setup and >> not selecting anything new. I have run sshd successfully on Win7 >> computers and older. This is a new one for me. > > Same platform as you. Here are my (possibly relevant) data for > comparison: > >> ls -ld /var/empty > drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cyg_server root 0 Jan 3 11:36 /var/empty/ >> egrep cyg_server /etc/passwd > cyg_server:unused:1003:513:Privileged > server,U-luther\cyg_server,S-1-5-21-3264347833-3381411623-2398912269-1003:/var/empty:/bin/bash >> egrep root /etc/group > root:S-1-5-32-544:0: >> egrep S-1-5-32-544 /etc/passwd > Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: > > ht > -- > Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: h...@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged > spam] > > -- > 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 > -- 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
