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Re: sshd: fork of unprivileged child failed


--On 04 June 2006 16:27 -0500 Renà Berber <r.berber@computer.org> wrote:

Robin Walker wrote:

I have a system with Cygwin sshd installed that refuses to accept
connections.  sshd is running and listening on port 22.

In the Windows Application Log there are, for each failed connection
attempt, entries of the form:

sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed.

What is you configuration in respect to privilege separation?

UsePrivilegeSeparation yes


And a few more details could be useful, version of Windows,

XP Pro, fully up to date.


any special ssh configuration?

I have not configured anything. It used to work: now it doesn't.


was sshd and users installed following the provided documentation?

To what provided documentation are you referring?


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Robin Walker (Junior Bursar), Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET, UK
rdhw@cam.ac.uk  http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/  Tel:+44 1223 335528

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