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Philippe Blayo
Asked: 2012-10-11 04:35:58 +0800 CST

User's rights to run a service on Vista

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What rights a user needs to run cygwin sshd as a service on vista? A ssh-host-config creates user cyg_server with 5 rights:

$ editrights.exe -l -u cyg_server
SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege
SeCreateTokenPrivilege
SeTcbPrivilege
SeServiceLogonRight
SeDenyRemoteInteractiveLogonRight

But the service failed (even after reboot, reinstall and with cygwin terminal in Administrator mode):

$ cygrunsrv.exe -S sshd
Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure
ssh

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  1. Best Answer

    You should verify that the cyg_server account has been correctly set in your "/etc/passwd" file. If you want to be sure, just launch the following command:

    mkpasswd -l -c >/etc/passwd

    You should also verify that your new "sshd" service has been registered and will be started by the account "cyg_server":

    • Go to the Windows services management interface (Execute --> services.msc)
    • Right-click on the sshd service and choose "Properties"
    • Verify that the account which is in charge of running the service is "cyg_server"

    Perhaps is the following priviledge also necessary:

    editrights -a SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege -u cyg_server

    You can also check in lusrmgr.msc that the account password is set to never expire, and that it hasn't been disabled

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