sshd fails to start: logon failure

[Ryan Johnson]

On 14/02/2013 4:19 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 2/14/2013 4:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 14/02/2013 3:52 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> On 2/14/2013 9:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I tried to ssh to my cygwin box today and was unable to connect. It
>>>> seems the sshd service can no longer run, for reasons that mystify me:
>>>>> # net start sshd
>>>>> System error 1069 has occurred.
>>>>>
>>>>> The service did not start due to a logon failure.
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't aware of having changed anything; would it be advisable to 
>>>> just
>>>> reinstall sshd from setup.exe and/or sshd_host_config, or is there 
>>>> some
>>>> simple troubleshooting I might do?
>>>
>>> reinstall is not the way.
>>> Likely something reset the cyg_server privileges.
>>> Try to re-enable them with
>>>
>>> editrights -u cyg_server -a SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege
>>> editrights -u cyg_server -a SeCreateTokenPrivilege
>>> editrights -u cyg_server -a SeTcbPrivilege
>>> editrights -u cyg_server -a SeServiceLogonRight
>>> editrights -u cyg_server -a SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege
>> No luck, the same error still occurs. However, now that you mention 
>> it, I
>> did play with cygserver settings while trying to install pgsql a 
>> while back.
>>
>> Is there a way to view the privileges to see what I may have broken?
>
> $ editrights -u cyg_server -l
> SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege
> SeCreateTokenPrivilege
> SeTcbPrivilege
> SeServiceLogonRight
> SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight
Mine has all those, plus SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege (possibly thanks to 
the above from Marco).

It seems that I managed to de-configure sshd somehow. There's no 
sshd_config in /etc/ (just the skeleton in /etc/defaults/), and 
sshd-host-config doesn't seem to exist, either. So, I blew away the sshd 
and cygrunsrv services and their associated users and re-ran 
ssh-host-config. All is well now... except that now an enormous ascii 
art hippo greets me at login. Ick.

Thanks,
Ryan


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