Check services's configuration files permissions. I bet local system account has no read access to the configuration files.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@;gmx.de] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSHD on NT4... Hi, > > I attached the /etc/group file also, because the files which > > normally should belong to group "SYSTEM" now all belong to "Kein", > > maybe that helps? > > Which files do you mean? Didn't chown help? Any hint in > /var/log/sshd.log or in the WIndows event log? The files I meant are /etc/ssh*, /var/empty and /var/log/sshd.log The file /var/log/sshd.log is empty. Evidently, sshd doesn't get executed. > Sigh, why are people using textmode voluntarily... I am sorry, but I have to. Legacy applications needing CR/LF. If you volunteer to rewrite them, I would be very grateful :-) Anyhow, I found out that starting ANY service fails (I tried apache and other users), if (and only if) the service doesn't run as Administrator. Thank you, Dscho -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/