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Re: Silently configure sshd fails via system account


Lord Laraby writes:

> I cannot understand how to do what it wants in order to start. Any
> help would be appreciated. I can send cygcheck.out if desired. This is
> Windows 8.1 ver 6.3 -- 64-bit. Cygwin (64-bit) is installed in a USB
> hard drive K:\cygwin and I recently did an update by running setup and
> not selecting anything new. I have run sshd successfully on Win7
> computers and older. This is a new one for me.

Same platform as you.  Here are my (possibly relevant) data for
comparison:

> ls -ld /var/empty
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cyg_server root 0 Jan  3 11:36 /var/empty/
> egrep cyg_server /etc/passwd
cyg_server:unused:1003:513:Privileged
server,U-luther\cyg_server,S-1-5-21-3264347833-3381411623-2398912269-1003:/var/empty:/bin/bash
> egrep root /etc/group
root:S-1-5-32-544:0:
> egrep S-1-5-32-544 /etc/passwd
Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::

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