Problems using sshd as a service

[David Brown]

I am trying to get sshd to run as a service on my W2K SP2 machine.  I have
got sshd set up properly (as far as I know), with all the keys and files it
needs.  If I start a cygwin bash shell and type "/usr/sbin/sshd", then the
server starts fine and issues no errors or warnings.  From another PC on the
network, I can ssh in to this PC.  In other words, sshd is working
perfectly.

However, when I install it as a service with

    cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd

and then try to start the service, either with cygrunsrv or from the Control
Panel, I get:

    cygrunsrv -S sshd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.

Looking with taskmanager, however, I see that sshd has been started fine - I
have no problem logging into it.  So the sshd server has been started, even
though Windows does not know it.  This leads to complaints during startup,
and I can't use "net start" and "net stop" but must kill sshd manually if
needed.

Cygwin1.dll version 1.3.12 of 06/07/2002.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

David
Norway.


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