this addresses these errors : Failed password for illegal user authentication refused Illegal User Error Attempting to Authenticate in sshd
I followed instructions for setting sshd as a win2k service and it worked great. what did cause me a day of hardship was the fact that i did not do mkpasswd -l (or d for domain) >> /etc/passwd to propogate all my users. i didn't find this in all my searches for cygwin ssh help and only found this refferenced in an email dealing w/ a different sshd problem. i just wanted to mail it to you so in case it wasn't already posted in a million places you could post this tip. eramm -- 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/