On Aug 18 17:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 10:30, Matt Swift wrote: > > I've verified on two machines running XP Pro with up-to-date Cygwin > > installations that upgrading from openssh 3.8.1p1-1 to openssh 3.9p1-1 > > breaks sshd when running with privilege separation (the default). > > [...] > As a temporary measure, please add the -r option when starting sshd. > I haven't found the exact culprit so far, but the above flag will help. > > Thanks for the report. It's embarassing that I didn't find the error > myself since I had accidentally switched off privilege separation a few > days ago :-(
I found the culprit. It's a miscalculation bug in Cygwin which happens when dup'ing sockets. I've checked in a fix. For the impatient, you can try the latest developers snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/