How to run cygwin sshd as a domain user?

[Dave Korn]

Xing Qiu wrote:

> No, I tried that, and it didn't work.  As far as I understand, cygrunsrv
> is just a wrapper to run some daemon in the background. I simply can't
> start sshd with my own user.  Below are the error messages:
> 
> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d
> debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_4.1p1
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
> Disabling protocol version 1. Could not load host key
> Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
> sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
> 
> Here is the result of ls -lh /etc/ssh* :
> 
> $ ls -lh /etc/ssh*
> -rwx------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM      1.3K Nov  4 15:03 /etc/ssh_config
> -rw-------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       668 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
> -rw-r--r--  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       600 Oct 30 19:37
> /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub 
> -rw-------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       525 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_key
> -rw-r--r--  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       329 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_key.pub
> -rw-------  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       883 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
> -rw-r--r--  1 SYSTEM SYSTEM       220 Oct 30 19:37
> /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub 
> -rw-r--r--  1 xqiu   mkgroup-l-d 2.8K Nov  4 15:03 /etc/sshd_config

> Should I go ahead change the ownership of /etc/ssh* ?



  How about re-running ssh-host-config, which contains code to set the
perms/ownership correctly?


  (If you insist on doing it manually, "SYSTEM" is fine for owner, but you
want "Domain Users" for the group).

    cheers,
      DaveK
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