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I had set this up a while ago on a different computer, but I can't get it running now. I've followed the directions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html and I'm getting the following error.

Gulshan@GSJK-PC ~
$ cygrunsrv -S sshd
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService:  Win32 error 1069:
The service did not start due to a logon failure.

I don't know where to start troubleshooting this error... I've ran Cygwin with admin privileges every time I installed it and when I run the cygrunsrv or net start commands.

net start sshd doesn't work either.

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  • What version of windows are you running now and what version of windows where you running when it worked?
    – Nifle
    Oct 2, 2011 at 9:54
  • @Nifle Windows 7 now, and I believe XP worked.
    – gsgx
    Oct 3, 2011 at 2:47
  • I have no real insight but have you tried starting the cygwin shell as administrator?
    – Nifle
    Oct 3, 2011 at 10:55
  • @Yes, that was included in the question.
    – gsgx
    Oct 4, 2011 at 2:50
  • No, you said that you ran as administrator when you installed it.
    – Nifle
    Oct 4, 2011 at 7:57

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Try the ssh-host-config command in a Cygwin shell. That sets up the privsep user, and the host keys, etc. I just set Cygwin ssh up on Windows 2008 R2, and once I did this, it worked for me.

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  • Yea, I did that. It gave me a couple warnings, but they seem to be common warnings. No luck.
    – gsgx
    Oct 6, 2011 at 1:28
  • Did you start the server by typing net start sshd? If that fails, check the server log in /var/log/sshd.log. I've found helpful error messages in there.
    – Fran
    May 16, 2012 at 17:51

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