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Subject: Re: SSH - Can't Login (3rd Post)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:10:31 -0500
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> On 10/26/2010 1:53 PM, Charles Smith wrote:
> > I'm apparently having the same problem you are - when I run the ssh 
client, it gives me the usage output.  I discovered that if I go back to the 
previous version (5.5p1.2?), it works.  Every time I update with setup.exe, I 
have to go back and reset openssh to 5.5.  I figured I must be doing something 
really stupid, until a colleague complained to me that ssh didn't work - when 
I told him about the 5.5 version, that solved his problem.
> > 
> > This has been going on for months now.  I do an internet search 
occasionally, but nothing comes up.  I'm actually quite puzzled.
> 
> Have you tried to confirm that you don't have an alias, shell 
> function, or script named ssh that is masking the real ssh binary? 
>  Something like that could be calling the real ssh with some 
> arguments that are invalid under the latest version.  What do you 
> get when you run the following:
> 
> type -a ssh
> 
> Have you tried installing a fresh copy of Cygwin to a new directory 
> to see if the problem recurs in that instance?  If the problem 
> happens in one but not the other when they should be otherwise 
> identical, a diff over the directories might track down the problem. 
>  If the problem happens in both places, maybe you have some other 
> software installed on your system that is somehow interfering.
> 

I have the same problem and have not been able to resolve the issue either.  I 
get the following from the "type -a" command.  Invoking either from the bash 
shell with a complete path still just displays the usage message and gives a 
return code of 255.  Everything else seems to be working fine.

Brian S. Wilson AT ncc-1701 ~
$ type -a ssh
ssh is /usr/bin/ssh
ssh is /bin/ssh

Brian S. Wilson

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