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Re: sshd: fork of unprivileged child failed
- From: René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:27:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: sshd: fork of unprivileged child failed
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Robin Walker wrote:
> I have a system with Cygwin sshd installed that refuses to accept
> connections. sshd is running and listening on port 22.
>
> In the Windows Application Log there are, for each failed connection
> attempt, entries of the form:
>
> sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed.
What is you configuration in respect to privilege separation?
And a few more details could be useful, version of Windows, any special ssh
configuration? was sshd and users installed following the provided documentation?
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René Berber
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