Hi I hope this is the right maling list for this issue. I have cygwin sshd service installed on windows 2008 server SP2. I setup the cygwin ssh server by answering yes to all questions asked by sshd-host-config and letting it create the cyg_server user etc.
If I do simple commands then ssh is working just fine(ls, cp etc). But it fails when I am trying to do few system commands from a linux box. E.g ssh administra...@neptune 'ping 10.10.10.1' If I do ping locally then it shows successful ping but if I do it as shown in line above the ping gets executed but always returns failure. But reboot works fine. Also I noticed that when I use some windows system tools e.g. devcon, whether directly or through bat files, the actual execution is fine but the command always fails. But if I execute exact same thing in cygwin shell in that machine, locally it is successful. I think I am having some permissions problem which I am unable to figure out. Here is my /etc/passwd file output. Also after some time if the machine is idle the ssh just stops working and I have to reboot the system. Just stopping and starting the service again does not work. SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: LocalService:*:19:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\LocalService,S-1-5-19:: NetworkService:*:20:544:U-NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService,S-1-5-20:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-WIN-U0Y5LEC50LA\Administrator,S-1-5 -21-232753783-2184645003-96538338-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash Guest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-WIN-U0Y5LEC50LA\Guest,S-1-5-21-232753783-21 84645003-96538338-501:/home/Guest:/bin/bash test:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1001:513:test,U-WIN-U0Y5LEC50LA\test,S-1-5-21-23275378 3-2184645003-96538338-1001:/home/test:/bin/bash sshd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:sshd privsep,U-WIN-U0Y5LEC50LA\sshd,S-1-5-21- 232753783-2184645003-96538338-1002:/var/empty:/bin/false cyg_server:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:Privileged server,U-WIN-U0Y5LEC50LA\cyg _server,S-1-5-21-232753783-2184645003-96538338-1003:/var/empty:/bin/false Any help greatly appreciated. Please let me know if any more information is needed. Thanks SP -- 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