hi, I have a fresh installation of cygwin on xp and win7 (both run 1.17.16-1). I have run ssh-host-config followed by rebaseall. The CYGWIN variable for sshd is not set. I have tried with and without priv. separation. It is started with cygrunsrv -S sshd I can connect with ssh localhost. Things are ok until I do vi /etc/profile. At this moment it crashes. Now if I try the version without priv separation to start by hand: /usr/sbin/sshd -D -d -e things go well and it does not crashes when in ssh session /etc/profile is edited. Am I missing something in config? --pawel Info from Event Viewer: The description for Event ID 0 from source sshd cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer. If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event. The following information was included with the event: sshd: PID 484: service `sshd' failed: signal 11 raised