Brian Dessent wrote: > No, it's a red herring. The host keys should be readable only by the > process that runs sshd. This must be SYSTEM in order for impersonation > to work. Thus they should be readable only by SYSTEM, and that is how > ssh-host-config sets things up, correctly. So if you try to run sshd as > your normal user account, it will not work. That's why it's a bad idea > to mess around with running sshd from a regular prompt, because you will > run into all kinds of permissions/ownership issues unless you know > precisely what you're doing.
The footnote to this is that if you obtain a shell as the SYSTEM user, you can run sshd from a prompt in debugging mode without any issues. There is a script somewhere in the mailing list archives, I think it's called "sysbash", that achieves this. Brian -- 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/