OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 8/11/2010 10:14 AM, Carsten.Porzler@spb.de wrote:
> Dear Cygwin community,
>
> unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error
> message while logging on by using OpenSSH
>
>     5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8
>
> This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted.
>
> If log on once at the Windows console as a user with local admin
> privileges, also the SSH logon works again.
>
> We are using Cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20
> 17:20 i686 Cygwin and OpenSSH 5.1.
>
> Does anybody know the reason for this failure?

It's really not clear to me from the above whether you're dealing with
domain users in the failing case but if so, please read the following
FAQ:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain>

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