Kevin Hilton wrote:
Let me just make sure I know what you are telling me to do, since I
already did this and it didnt make a difference. As an administrator,
I:
1. Delete the sshd user -- Ok I manually edited the /etc/passwd file
and deleted this user
No, I mean delete the *user*, not a line in a passwd file. Windows has
a notion of user accounts, Cygwin does not; it just mirrors the Windows
database in the passwd and group file. So deleting a user means doing
it in Windows, through the control panel, or with "net user".
On 2k3 and greater (including Vista) ssh-host-config should have created
both a sshd (for privsep) and a sshd_server user (for running the
service), so you'd want to run "net user sshd /delete" and "net user
sshd_server /delete". You can run "net user" to see the list of Windows
user accounts. If you don't see these user accounts it means the
ssh-host-config script wasn't able to create them, which is probably the
underlying cause.
The reason for suggesting to delete these users is that ssh-host-config
won't recreate them if they already exist, so if they exist and are
setup wrong, ssh-host-config can't help you.