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Re: Problems starting SSHD


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Jeff Silverman wrote:
>
> > sshd : PID 1696 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation
> > not permitted.
>
> Try running
>
> cygcheck /usr/sbin/sshd.exe | sed -ne 's,\\,/,g' -e '/cygwin/p' | \
>   xargs cygpath -u | xargs echo chmod a+x

Grr, embarrassed by cut-and-paste...  Again...

Here's the "real" incantation:

cygcheck /usr/sbin/sshd.exe | sed -ne 's,\\,/,g' -e '/cygwin/p' | \
  xargs cygpath -u | xargs chmod a+x

Sorry for letting that test bit through...
	Igor

> (as is, on 2 lines -- just cut-and-paste to your shell).
>
> Also, "chmod a+x /bin".
>
> > and
> >
> > sshd : PID 2548 : starting service `' failed: redirect_fd: open (1,
> > /var/log/sshd.log): 13, Permission denied.
>
> Try "chmod a+x /var /var/log" and
> "chown SYSTEM.SYSTEM /var/log/sshd.log && chmod 644 /var/log/sshd.log"
>
> > I have attached the output of  cygcheck -svr as the file
> > cygcheck)output.txt.
> > What else should I look at, please?
>
> It's always a good idea to check permissions on anything that might be
> used in a program running as service, just to make sure that the SYSTEM
> user (which is used to run services, a.k.a. LocalSystem) has appropriate
> access.
>
> An aside: one possible useful addition to cygcheck is printing the
> permission bits when listing the DLLs in verbose mode...  Any volunteers
> to add this functionality?
>
> HTH,
> 	Igor

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