Re: Cygwin / SSHD - Login issues.

From: Triforce (google.20.triforce66_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: 27 Sep 2004 08:35:42 -0700

Works great! Thank you for your help!

dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker) wrote in message news:<cgsjks$nc4$1@gate.dodgy.net.au>...
> In article <MPG.1b9b8ead35630b72989680@news.supernews.com>,
> Nunya <bounce@localhost.com> wrote:
> >I just had the same problem when upgrading sshd to 3.9p1 on some of my
> >cygwin boxes. Looked to be related to privilege separation and the sshd
> >user. I removed and recreated a few times, uninstalled the service and
> >re-ran ssh-host-config -y all to no avail. Finally decided to try
> >without privilege separation and now it works fine, although not quite
> >as secure, which bothers me. There are some other threads describing
> >problems with this, but none seemed to point to a good solution.
>
> Apparently sshd + privsep + reexec (on by default in 3.9) tickles a bug in
> cygwin itself. You can disable either of privsep or reexec (run sshd with
> a -r option) or use a snapshot[1] of cygwin1.dll which has the bug fixed.
>
> [1] http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

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