1.7.7: Win7 SSHD, chown bad file descriptor

[Jeff Odegard]

Today I installed Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7 Enterprise.  OpenSSH version 
is OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010

With admin privileges, I set up sshd as a service using ssh-host-config, 
and said yes to all questions except I kept the cyg_server username.

The service started fine, then I tried to ssh to the system, entered 
user/pass, and was immediately disconnected.  The windows application 
log had the following error:

     sshd: PID 728: fatal: chown(/dev/tty0, 1000, 1002) failed: Bad file 
descriptor

$ ls -la /dev/tty0
crw------- 1 SYSTEM Administrators 136, 0 2010-11-12 14:41 /dev/tty0
     (I noticed on older Cygwins on XP this is crw-rw-rw-  Can I change 
this?  Will it stay permanent on reboot?  This looks like a security 
issue, having a tty world read/writable.)

I tried several options with the Windows service.  I noticed in the 
ssh-host-config script that it uses ntsec, which is no longer 
supported.  I tried using acl, noacl, ntsec, nontsec - all with no 
effect.  Here is my latest attempt:

$ cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "CYGWIN sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --desc 
"Cygwin Secure Shell Daemon" -a "-D" -e CYGWIN="noacl tty 
nodosfilewarning" -y tcpip -u cyg_server

I thought it might be a problem with the sshd privilege separation, but 
these look OK:

$ ls -la /var/empty
total 4
drwx------+ 1 cyg_server Administrators    0 2010-11-12 21:15 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 odegardj   Administrators 4096 2010-11-12 23:34 ..

$ grep ssh /etc/passwd
sshd:unused:1008:513:sshd 
privsep,U-PTL-1\sshd,S-1-5-21-4040343701-3909715506-17
91091093-1008:/var/empty:/bin/false

Any thoughts on what I might try next.  I googled, but couldn't find 
anything that worked.

Thanks!

  - Jeff

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