openssh error 1062

["Lee Parsons" <parsonsl at upstate dot edu>]

I am working on a windows 2000 box that openssh recently stopped working on.
 For several months openssh worked correctly through cygwin as a service,
until the box was errantly shut down by a power outage.  Subsequent attempts
to log in to said box through ssh resulted in authentication errors.

Several different attempts to solve the problem have since been attempted,
including the re-installation of openssh, followed by later the
re-installation of cygwin into a new directory.  Now we are instead blessed
with the windows "error 1062" when trying to start openssh.  

I have seen a variety of solutions for this problem (such as checking the
permissions on /var/empty, correcting /etc/passwd for the user 'sshd',
explicitly setting windows permissions for the cygwin directory to the user
SYSTEM, and verifying the windows registry keys).  None of the proposed
solutions have made a difference.  

I have also tried running it from the cygwin prompt as administrator (after
adjusting permissions on /var/empty accordingly).  This does not work
correctly, either.  If I run it this way, I am back to where I was before -
password authentication fails, even when connecting to localhost as a
non-administrator user who has a valid home directory and valid shell path.

I am out of ideas on this problem.  My current installation of cygwin is in
a completely new directory - I moved my previous installation from
"C:\cygwin" to "C:\cygwin-old" and installed the new one as "C:\cygwin".  

I'm not sure if this is important, but I noticed when I ran 'ssh-host-config
-y' as administrator, it never gave a "CYGWIN=" prompt.  I haven't found a
good explanation for this behavior, either.  

This is "OpenSSH_5.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h May 2008" on cygwin from setup
2.573.2.2.

thank you
Lee Parsons


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