Hi, I'm raising this question again, after having removed CYGWIN SSHD and resinstalled.
I am unable to execute an SSH <user>@localhost. I am prompted for the password and successfully logged on, only to receive an error message (see below) and the session closed immediately. Error Message: 1 [main] sshd 8284 C:\cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fatal error - unable to load C:\Windows\system32\userenv.dll, Win32 error 1114 Connection to localhost closed. My Cygwin installation is on a Vista Home Premium (yes I know it's an old OS), but the version I've been running for the past 3 years worked perfectly. The most interesting observation is that the logon works *if* I make the user a member of the local Administrators group. The Win32 1114 is a failure to initialise the dll. The observed fact that logging on with an administrator user account works, suggests that it is a Windows privilege problem. However, I would have thought that the privilege should rest with the SSHD service account, cyg_server, which is an Administrator and nothing to do with the user account trying to logon through the SSH command. Please remember that the old version I was running worked just fine. I could work around using the account as a privileged account, but that's not terribly desirable in this instance as the only intent of the SSHD connection is to establish a tunnel for port redirection, so I'd prefer NOT to expose a privileged account. This is quite frustrating as I was simply trying to upgrade to the latest (less vulnerable) SSHD daemon/service, from my 3-year old version. I know one person on the forum has recently upgraded their SSHD on a Win8 machine and reported that they were able to ssh logon with an unprivileged account. So maybe it's a Vista backwards compatibility issue, but even then I'm not convinced. It might be constructive to understand what the default bash script is trying to do that invokes a routine from userenv.dll. I hope someone can help. -- 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
