SSH on Cygwin Immediate Drops Connections

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep  8 14:08, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 01:50 PM 9/8/2004, you wrote:
> >Mark Eret <eret <at> cs.colorado.edu> writes:
> >
> >> ...
> >> I have looked at these lists and tried all the solutions.  I've added '-r'
> >> to the sshd startup command.  
> >> ...
> >
> >I just wanted to chip in that I have tried the -r setting without success also
> >(using priviledge separation).  I've had success reverting to the previous
> >version of openssh (3.8.1p1-1).
> 
> 
> OK.  Any of you out there that are having this problem up for tracking this 
> down?  Even if you can't look at code, there's plenty of tracking that can
> done before getting to that stage.  See:
> 
> >Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> 
> for initial guidelines.  And don't forget that the server has a debug mode
> too and the output of that is much more telling than that of the client.

And also note that the Cygwin bug which prevented reexec'ing to work
together with privilege separation is fixed in 1.5.11.  I'm running
OpenSSH 3.9p1 with PrivSep and no -r option on my XP machine.


Corinna

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