Setting up CYGWIN SSH

This article is assuming that you have installed CYGWIN on your Winders environment already.

I had troubles getting SSHD to run on the system and as with SSH it ended up being dumb file and/or directory permissions.

1. Make sure you have an /etc/password file.
   #  mkpasswd   -cl   >   /etc/passwd
2. Make sure you have an /etc/group file.
   # mkgroup -l > /etc/group
3. Setup the ssh config files.
   # /usr/bin/ssh-host-config
   
4. Fix user permissions
   # chmod  755  /var
   # chmod 664 /var/log/sshd.log
5. Fix file ownership
   # chown cyg_server /var/empty
   # chown cyg_server /etc/ssh*
6. Test starting the SSHD service
   # net start sshd
7. If it doesn’t start consult the log file
   # less /var/log/sshd.log