Cannot run SSH

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Nov 23 03:25:00 GMT 2009


On 11/21/2009 10:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Huang Bambo on 11/21/2009 8:29 PM:
>> run /usr/sbin/sshd directly and check if it can start.
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>> 2009/11/22 baykusderki<baykusderki AT gmail.com>:
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> 121 lines of email, with only one line of new content, and on the wrong
> side.  PLEASE learn how to avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU, and
> quit quoting raw email addresses: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

All true and a very good point.  But even more important is the advice will
certainly keep 'sshd' from running as a daemon now.  I understand why people
try this and why they recommend it but I really wish there was a way we could
keep people who don't understand the differences of switching users on Windows
compared to Linux from giving out advice like this...

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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