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Re: ssh to 2003 server exist immediately
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
I'm trying to set up ssh access to a Windows 2003 server. I am having
a problem in that when I ssh to this server it immediately exits and
I find the following in /var/log/sshd.log:
5 [main] sshd 12912 C:\Cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fatal error
- could not load ws2_32, Win32 error 0
Forgive me I did do some research about setting up ssh on a 2003
server and I believe I've very close to having it set up correctly
but I'm still missing something. I created a local sshd_server user
and added things like "Act as part of the operating system", "Replace
process level token", etc. I did not see a setting for "Increase
quota". Note that I am using a local sshd_server users (i.e.
<machine>\sshd_server) as the logon for the sshd service. I don't
believe I'm using privilege separation.
I had to use mmc and a Group Policy editor for the domain to add this
local user into the rights at the domain level before this would
work. Still when I try to ssh in I get a password prompt but after
that the above gets written into the sshd.log and the prompt returns.
Note that I also use this local sshd_server user for inetd so that
rsh can and does work. Insecure I know and I'd like to switch this
client over to using all ssh but I gotta get it working for them.
Thanks in advance.
Why not use ssh-host-config to set up sshd? It will create
sshd_server for you in the proper way.
I did! sshd_server would not have been my choice of a username had I
done this by hand (the user daemon comes to mind). However that was not
working. This is a domain environment so the sshd_server user could be
<domain>\sshd_server or <local machine>\sshd_server. I don't think I
have enough privilege to add a domain user so I made it a local user.
Plus I believe that domain policies did not allow me to modify the user
rights of this local user. (From memory) I believe I went into mmc and
added the Group Policy Editor snapin then attempted to add the local
sshd_server to the users that have say "Act as part of the operating
system" rights but the add button was grayed out. Last night while
trying again I noticed I could add Domain Group Policy snapin and much
to my surprise I was able to add the <local server>\sshd_server user to
the "Act as part of operating system" and "replace process level token"
lists. Again I didn't see an "Increase quota". This got inetd and rsh
working but ssh still produces an error.
Actually, assuming I can create say a domain "daemon" user for use with
sshd and inetd, etc., would it be better to do this at the domain level.
I would like to allow others in the domain to set up ssh or inetd with
the rights to SU...
No tweaking of the permissions for sshd_server is necessary and it's not
required to add sshd_server to any other users to get things to work.
sshd_server is a local user created to run the service and nothing else.
To login via 'ssh' with a domain user, just make sure the domain user is
in your '/etc/passwd' file and your '/etc/group' file contains the proper
domain groups. See 'man mkpasswd' and 'man mkgroup' if these users and
groups are not already in these files.
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