How do I run sshd as a particular user?

[Alfred von Campe]

On Feb 26, 2008, at 18:29, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>


> How did you make this change?  If you removed and reinstalled the  
> service
> with 'cygrunsrv' like the sshd configuration script does, then use the
> '-W, --passwd <password>' flag.  Otherwise, specify the password in
> Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services->Cygwin sshd Logon  
> properties
> page.

It's not a month since Larry posted this (thanks, BTW), and this  
issue has bubbled up to the top again.  I have tried various ways to  
get the sshd service started as a domain user (instead of the local  
sshd_server user) and can not get it to work.  What is the correct  
syntax to specify a domain user with cygrunsrv?  This is what I have  
tried:

   cygrunsrv -I sshd -u "DOMAINNAME\USERNAME" -w PASSWORD -d "CYGWIN  
sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a -D -e "CYGWIN=bin tty smbntsec" -y tcpip

This successfully installs the service, and if I look at it in the  
Services panel it shows the correct username (DOMAIN\USERNAME), but  
if I try to start the service I always get the error "The Cygwin sshd  
service in Local Computer started and then stopped".  If I substitute  
sshd_server for the user and supply the correct password, the sshd  
service starts correctly.  But I want to start the service as a  
domain user so that I can access network shares and resolve some  
build issues with Visual Studio that are apparently caused by not  
being fully authenticated.

Alfred


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