Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3FA9543F.67690D2C@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 11:49:19 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: Please Help: Connection closed after successful ssh connection References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cygwin.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - dessent.net Note-from-DJ: This may be spam "Donovan, Michael" wrote: > I've been scouring the internet for a resolution to this problem and > have yet to find how this was solved. I've been working on this for a > week, and I'm not any closer to solving it. Thanks in advance for taking > your time to help solve my problem. > > I have setup a password less ssh connection to a Windows 2003 Server > using the SYSTEM account with privilege separation. > > Here is an output from ssh -v localhost: I think under Windows 2003 you need to create a special account under which to run sshd, not SYSTEM. Try Corinna's ssh-host-config script that she has been asking people to try out and test, it should take care of creating this user, giving it the proper tokens, and removing its ability to log on (for security), etc. See also: 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/