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Re: Silently configure sshd fails via system account
- From: PolarStorm <developer at clinicsearch dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:24:57 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Silently configure sshd fails via system account
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- References: <5307BB89 dot 80405 at cse dot yorku dot ca>
Paul Griffith wrote
> ...
> /usr/bin/ssh-host-config --yes --cygwin ntsec --user cyg_server --pwd blah
> ...
Just a few things...
1) Don't do that (manually).
First of all, "ntsec" is deprecated. Second, there are a lot of strange
issues when
using "--yes", just answer the questions manually, especially since you
don't need
all those keys just to have ssh work.
2) Make sure you run the ssh-host-config from an "administrator: cygwin
shell.
3) Check your /etc/sshd-config for: "UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox" which
is
the new default. The ssh-host-config script has a bug on line 169 that
attempts
to set this to "no", but where the regex fails. (I told people in THIS
<http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/CSIH-SSH-setup-script-problems-on-W81-64-tp106953.html>
nabble post, but I
don't think it ever reached the main mailing list.)
4) The sshd user pas-wor-d is set to expire by default after 42 days, in
Windows 8.1.
Fix it if you're using that.
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