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Re: Win 7 sshd help
- From: Bryan <brakeb at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:11:45 -0600
- Subject: Re: Win 7 sshd help
- References: <4CE6E96A.5070203@gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 15:17, Kirby Bakken <bakkenkl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Help.
>
> I recently installed cygwin w/sshd packages on my Win7 pro PC. ÂI've gotten
> ssh to work both with localhost, and with the LAN IP address.
>
> However, trying to ssh from 'outside' my router doesn't work. ÂI CAN ssh to
> my linux box. ÂThen I change the port-forward in the router to my Win7 box,
> and I got 'permission denied' after the password prompt. ÂAfter much
> fiddling, the /etc/host.allow/deny files have somewhere along the line
> disappeared. ÂNow, I get a timeout...
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) are the host.allow and deny files required?
hosts.allow and hosts.deny only work if you compiled using tcp_wrappers
> 2) are there any known problems with sshd running on Win7?
>
I use SSHd on several Windows 7 machines (when I'm not on my native
OpenBSD laptop)
> Before I 'munged' my installation and the allow/deny files diisappeared, I
> had tried su and login, and got permission denied errors....
>
> I've un-installed sshd and re-installed it several times....
>
> The /var/log/sshd.log file is oddly empty... ÂTrying to run /usr/sbin/sshd
> Âand not as a service hasn't worked.
>
> Ideas? ÂSuggestions?
>
> Kirby
>
Disable your windows 7 firewall, or make it so that it passes port 22.
If you are remote, make sure your ISP isn't blocking port 22 inbound
to your router. I had an ISP that blocked a lot of ports below 1024.
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