Cannot run SSH

[baykusderki]

On 11/23/2009 1:32 PM, Alexander Quinn wrote:
> FWIW, I had the exact same problem.  This was under Cygwin 1.5 (not 1.7) and Win7 (build 7600 enterprise release).  The OpenSSH server worked for a few days and then stopped working with similar symptoms to you.  I eventually got it working again.  After working for a couple more days, it broke again.  Nevertheless, this is what I did to make it work after not working.  I realize some of this may be unnecessary or even counterproductive.  I don't know enough Cygwin and/or Windows to say what made a difference so I'm just telling you what I did in the off chance that it helps somebody find the real problem.
>
>
> 1. Stop and delete the service:
>      cygrunsrv --stop sshd
>      cygrunsrv --remove sshd
> 2. Remove the cyg_server user via Windows.
> 3. Restart system.
> 4. From bash, run ssh-host-config to recreate user and sshd service.  Answer yes to everything except allow cyg_server to be the name of the user.
> 5. Manually set the password for the cyg_server user from Cygwin.  Make it 10 characters with only alphanumeric (i.e. "abcDEF1234" - not my password obviously).
>      passwd cygserver
> 6. Go into Services, properties of the sshd service, Log On tab.  Manually set that to the stored log on password for the service.
> 7. Close bash if it's still open.
> 8. Start-->Run-->"ash" and run the rebaseall command.
> 9. From the command prompt, run net start sshd.
>
> Please forgive the superfluous details.  Good luck!
>
>
> Alex
>
>    
Hi

Thanks for the help offer, I desperately need it here :)


I actually have tried all those steps many times :( including rebasing. 
But I will try these again in the order of steps you have provided.  The 
only thing I did not try was using alphanumeric password


thanks again





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