Silently configure sshd fails via system account

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Tue Mar 18 01:54:00 GMT 2014


Greetings, Lord Laraby!

> Oh and I forgot the most intriguing gotcha. After creating the sshd
> user for me (I went to service manager and discovered this) the user
> assigned to the sshd server was actually cyg_server (not sshd)!!!!!
> After changing all of those things the service started.

That's because service is running as cyg_server, while sshd user is used to
invoke login shells of connecting users.
You just messed it all.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.03.2014, <03:42>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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