On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:27:40PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > No, it's a red herring. The host keys should be readable only by the > > process that runs sshd. This must be SYSTEM in order for impersonation > > to work. Thus they should be readable only by SYSTEM, and that is how > > ssh-host-config sets things up, correctly. So if you try to run sshd as > > your normal user account, it will not work. That's why it's a bad idea > > to mess around with running sshd from a regular prompt, because you will > > run into all kinds of permissions/ownership issues unless you know > > precisely what you're doing. > > The footnote to this is that if you obtain a shell as the SYSTEM user, > you can run sshd from a prompt in debugging mode without any issues. > There is a script somewhere in the mailing list archives, I think it's > called "sysbash", that achieves this.
One can also do this with the commercial product "Firedaemon" http://www.firedaemon.com/ which is a generic service control GUI. -- Albert Lunde -- 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/
