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Re: SSHd configuration problems (System error 1376)
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: PolarStorm <developer at clinicsearch dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 15:26:08 +0300
- Subject: Re: SSHd configuration problems (System error 1376)
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- References: <1418434328946-113637 dot post at n5 dot nabble dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, PolarStorm!
> So to summarize, the following issues have not been addressed:
> (a) The user "sshd" user account password expires after 42 days.
This is your system policy. Never had such issues myself.
> (b) The user is not part of "Administrator" group, severely limiting its
> usability.
It shouldn't.
> (c) An artificial 3rd user is still needed to be able to login remotely
> using SSH,
> if the "regular" Cygwin Windows user have chosen not tu have a
> passworkd.
This is an operating system restriction, as far as I know.
> (d) The error messages are incomprehensible.
Which error messages?
> (e) The text "Query: Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: []" is
> incomprehensible
On this, I have to agree.
> For everybody convenience, to fix the password expiration (a), use this
> line:
> $ wmic useraccount where "Name='sshd'" set PasswordExpires=FALSE
> (The extra quotes there are crucial!)
> Happy Holiday Wishes!
> # CYGWIN_NT-6.3 xxxx 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:47 x86_64 Cygwin
Is this 8.1 ?
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 13.12.2014, <15:23>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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