In the first place, OpenSSH daemon works fine for me, if "UsePrivilegeSeparation" feature is disabled.
I enabled "UsePrivilegeSeparation" and properly configured my system for use of this feature: set up account "sshd" and set up permissions for /var/empty. In this configuration OpenSSH daemon starts without complains, but drops incoming connections immediately after connect. The appropriate debug output of SSH daemon (debug level 3) is: ------------------- cut here -------------------------------- ... debug2: Network child is on pid 1000 debug3: privsep user:group 1004:100ed debug1: permanently_set_uid: 1004/100 permanently_set_uid: was able to restore old [e]gid ------------------- cut here -------------------------------- The last line has severity "fatal", and is sent to Event Log. My setup is: cygwin-1.5.11-1, openssh-3.9p1-1 @ Windows XP Professinal RUS SP2 SSH daemon is running under (NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM) account. /var/empty resides on NTFS, permissions set appropriately, and test "sshd -t" does not complain about anything. There was a discussion recently in this maillist with very close topic: "SSH on Cygwin Immediate Drops Connections" (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00298.html) But that topic is not applicable, because addresses another problem: >> debug1: permanently_set_uid: 1107/513 >> setreuid 1107: Permission denied What could I do to cope with SSH daemon failures ? -- - TOR Trade Company, IT Department, Konstantin Andreev. -- 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/
