From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 45246 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2016 22:12:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 45224 invoked by uid 89); 7 Apr 2016 22:12:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sshd, priviledge, Administrator, administrator X-HELO: freon.franz.com Received: from freon.franz.com (HELO freon.franz.com) (67.207.112.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 22:12:54 +0000 Received: from freon.franz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freon.franz.com (Allegro Maild v1.3.7) id 000001298205; Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:12:52 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSH access to desktop From: Kevin Layer Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 22:12:00 -0000 Message-ID: <1573.1460067171@freon.franz.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 Here's what worked for me: Ran ssh-host-config as administrator and took defaults, except priviledge separation => no install as a service => no Then, I chown'd /var/empty to Administrator and was able to run "sshd -p 8100" and ssh into the box. More importantly, other users were able to start their own sshds, on different ports, and also ssh into the box. -- 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