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Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started


Brian Dessent wrote:

> (It would probably be a good addition for ssh-host-config to check for
> user mounts and bail or offer to remount them... this seems to come up a
> lot.)

Here is a patch against ssh-host-config that checks for this.

Brian
--- ssh-host-config.orig	2005-05-02 13:09:13.984375000 -0700
+++ ssh-host-config	2005-05-02 13:23:50.640625000 -0700
@@ -583,6 +583,16 @@
 	chown "${_user}".544 ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/sshd.log
       fi
     fi
+    if mount | egrep -q 'on /(|usr/(bin|lib)) type user'
+    then
+      echo
+      echo "Warning: It appears that you have user mode mounts (\"Just me\""
+      echo "chosen during install.)  Any daemons installed as services will"
+      echo "fail to function unless system mounts are used.  To change this,"
+      echo "re-run setup.exe and choose \"All users\"."
+      echo
+      echo "For more information, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#TOC33";
+    fi
   fi
 fi
 

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