Re: ssh logon failure

I feel like a terrier peeling away an onion. Darn it, this is going to work! I agree with your comment about being in the weeds and started over, in the process discovering why HOME was set improperly (using the domain switch for mkpasswd instead of local). I reinstalled ssh, re-ran ssh-host-co

Re: ssh logon failure

Furthermore, I've just discovered that I _can_ log in as the cyg_server user! >From there, if i attempt to su to myself (user greendg1), I see this: --- $ su - greendg1 su: warning: cannot change directory to //APLFS01/GREENDG1$: Not a directory mkdir: cannot create directory `//APLFS01': Read-on

Re: ssh logon failure

Larry, thanks for your reply. I am using windows 7. I've tried changing ownership of /var/empty to cyg_server, but this doesn't help. FYI my "Fix" only worked for a day before failing again. Now I'm back to square one. -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/s

Re: ssh logon failure

I experienced the "operation not permitted" problem as many others have. I had not changed my setup when the error was experienced, but I noticed that every computer which presented this difficulty was a work machine with our IT security suite installed. On every PC _without_ an IT security