This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: sshd: fork of unprivileged child failed


Robin Walker wrote:

> I have a system with Cygwin sshd installed that refuses to accept
> connections.  sshd is running and listening on port 22.
> 
> In the Windows Application Log there are, for each failed connection
> attempt, entries of the form:
> 
> sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed.

What is you configuration in respect to privilege separation?

And a few more details could be useful, version of Windows, any special ssh
configuration? was sshd and users installed following the provided documentation?

[snip]
-- 
René Berber


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]