Greetings, PolarStorm! > So to summarize, the following issues have not been addressed:
> (a) The user "sshd" user account password expires after 42 days. This is your system policy. Never had such issues myself. > (b) The user is not part of "Administrator" group, severely limiting its > usability. It shouldn't. > (c) An artificial 3rd user is still needed to be able to login remotely > using SSH, > if the "regular" Cygwin Windows user have chosen not tu have a > passworkd. This is an operating system restriction, as far as I know. > (d) The error messages are incomprehensible. Which error messages? > (e) The text "Query: Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: []" is > incomprehensible On this, I have to agree. > For everybody convenience, to fix the password expiration (a), use this > line: > $ wmic useraccount where "Name='sshd'" set PasswordExpires=FALSE > (The extra quotes there are crucial!) > Happy Holiday Wishes! > # CYGWIN_NT-6.3 xxxx 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:47 x86_64 Cygwin Is this 8.1 ? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 13.12.2014, <15:23> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
