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Raki
Raki

Reputation: 21

cygwin sshd service not starting on windows 2003

Hi! I get following error when tried to start the Cygwin sshd Windows service:

$ cygrunsrv.exe -S sshd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.

I used ssh-host-config to install the service with privilege separation. The script created two users: sshd and sshd_server.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3928

Answers (1)

Erik Kaplun
Erik Kaplun

Reputation: 38207

The following solved this issue for me:

Add the "Full Control" permission for the SYSTEM user to the following directories:

C:\Cygwin
C:\Cygwin\var
C:\Cygwin\var\log

If it still doesn't help then, try running ssh-host-config -y and retry cygrunsrv -S sshd.

Also, I actually uninstalled the sshd service by issuing cygrunsrv -R sshd prior to retrying and only after that running ssh-host-config -y.

(I found the solution at http://www.noah.org/wiki/Sshd_on_Windows)

Upvotes: 3

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