Yes, I did a right-click on the cygwin terminal icon and chose a "run as administrator" option. This is like doing a sudo to start a linux shell... everything run in the shell inherits "admin"/"root" as appropriate. Followed by using this shell to do:
cd /usr/bin ./ssh-host-config I entered 'yes' responses to the various setup questions including yes to privileged separation. I never bumped into this sort of inheritance problem in Windows 7 and earlier. Seems to be a Windows 10 "feature". This past week I ran into the same problem using an Intel supplied command script to install their hydra_mpi server. Another knowledgeable Windows 10 user reports he, too, has encountered this issue. After installation I do some local tweaks to sshd_config such as disablng plain-text password logins. I'm able to succesfully connect using ssh/sftp from other platforms to this system using public key authentication. Windows is configured to autostart cygsshd. I can add that I previously added C:\cygwin64 to the list of Windows Defender exceptions. Yes, I used to do a lot of work on Control Data Cyber205s, ETA-10s and Cray C90s. Practically speaking vector operations can make effective use of memory bandwidth. In other words, a vector a day keeps the scalars away! Regards, Art -----Original Message----- From: L A Walsh [mailto:cyg...@tlinx.org] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 6:05 PM To: art Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: Need admin privs before something can inherit them (was Re: ssh-host-config doesn't "inherit" user admin privilege) On 2021/01/14 17:21, art wrote: > I get a security code 5 when ssh-host-config tries to install cygsshd. I was > logged into Win 10 pro/x64 as an admin user. The "fix" was to start a > Cygwin64 Terminal with Admin and then run ssh-host-config within this script. You say ssh-host-config tries to install cygsshd. How was ssh-host-config called (started)? When Cygwin64 Terminal was run, it was run with Admin at the start. Was that done when ssh-host-config was run? How was it run? unrelated...: > Veni, vidi, vectori! @1976, 2021 > --- You like vectoring, I take it? :-)? Cheers! Linda -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
