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Re: Illegal User Error Attempting to Authenticate in sshd



Sorry - sshd does require a sshd_config in step #2 - just zero-length.

touch /cygwin/etc/sshd_config

Thanks,

_Dave_

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Dave Pinsker wrote:

> 
> Listfolk:
> 
> I have finally achieved a working sshd on Win2k w/FAT filesystems. 
> Also, cygrunsrv appears to be functioning properly. Steps taken were:
> 
> 1) Created links for Cygwin's var, tmp, usr, etc, and bin dir's in
>    c:/ (in other words, these dir's are hanging off of /). Both
>    srvany and cygrunsrv appear to require these, else cygrunsrv returns
>    the "Service did not return an error" message, and does not start.
> 
> 2) A reference on another site tipped me off here - the sites used 
>    procedures which evoked sshd *without* a sshd_config file. As I'm 
>    using password authentication, sshd's default behaviour will suffice.
> 
> HTH and thanks for the service,
> 
> _Dave_
> Dave Pinsker             
> davep@interaccess.com 
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dave Pinsker wrote:
> 
> > 
> > By way of follow-up to my original message 
> > (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00189.html), I'd like to 
> > update the list with a change in status.
> > 
> > I was able to eliminate the "Illegal User"  error by modifying the system 
> > environment path to DOS short names (example: c:\progra~1) 
> > 
> > However, I now receive:
> > "Failed password for <username> from <source IP> port <source port>"
> > 
> > I will continue to debug and keep the list informed.
> 
> 
> 
> 


Thanks,

_Dave_
Dave Pinsker             
davep@interaccess.com 
http://pinsker.cncdsl.com


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