How do I run sshd as a particular user?

[Alfred von Campe]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> - Did you check /var/run/sshd.log?  If it's empty it's probably  
> because
>   the domain user has no write permission.
>
> - Does the domain user have an entry in the local /etc/passwd?  sshd
>   needs that when checking file ownership.  And it allows to  
> specify the
>   user to cygrunsrv without the "domain\win_username" syntax.
>
> - Did you chown /etc/ssh* and /var/empty to the domain user when  
> trying
>   to start the service under that account?  That's a must have.

It's taken me a while to get to this, but changing the above  
mentioned permissions did the trick.  I can now log on and access  
network shares!  This will make the build engineers' lives a lot  
easier.  Thank you for a great product and for all the help on this  
list!

Well, I spoke a little too soon.  I got this working on two systems,  
but can not get it to work on a third.  The ssh daemon appears to  
start (neither cygrunsrv -S nor starting it from the Services Panel  
gives an error), but it really does not.  The Event Viewer  
Application log shows the following:

   The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( sshd ) cannot be  
found. The local
   computer may not have the necessary registry information or  
message DLL files to
   display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use  
the /AUXSOURCE=
   flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for  
details. The following
   information is part of the event: sshd: PID 2920: service `sshd'  
failed: signal 11
   raised.

Any ideas what could be raising signal 11 (SIGSEGV) and how I would  
go about debugging this?  ssh access was working to this machine  
before I changed the file system permissions and the account  
information for the sshd service.

Alfred


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