Okay, I figured out the whole issue. The script suggested non-privleged user sshd as the service user. I allowed that and the user was created. However the issues the script messed up are: 1) The account was never activated - "net user sshd /active:yes" had to be run at the command line. 2) All of the keys had permissions given to user cyg_server (which is actually another service with different needs). 3) the /var/empty file ownership was changed to sshd (stolen from cyg_server which also had that assigned home directory.) So, that was correct but wrong. 4) The /var/log/sshd.log ownership was given to cyg_server (who does not write to that log.) the cygserver.log is owned by SYSTEM!!! I do not know why. 5) Permission modes were wrong on every file.
These were all setup by the cygwin script, all I did was answer 'yes' to each question and provide sshd a password (twice). This might warrant a check by the maintainer. -- 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
