sshd

Mon Feb 14 07:42:17 GMT 2022

On 2/13/22 10:56 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Ernie Rael!
>> ...
> Open Windows Firewall (cygstart WF.msc), find all your sshd rules and trash
> them. Manually create (or tweak Windows sshd one) a single rule for port
> rather than executable.
> Additionally, to resolve conflicts with stock sshd, create a file
> %ProgramData%\ssh\sshd_config with single line `Port 2022` (for example).
>>Bingo. Many thanks.
I'd never opened the Windows Firewall before (IIRC), I didn't get the 
other references, looking around I ran into some windows defender thing, 
that said it had never run before, so I ignored it and figured it wasn't 
the firewall. I didn't realize the firewall was so pervasive.
Anyway, I found some sshd rules that referenced "C:/cygwin64/..." and a 
few years back I'd reinstalled cygwin on F: to get it off of C:, but the 
rules were never updated. So change "C" to "F" in a couple spots and now 
it connects.
Thanks again,
-ernie
PS Now I can track down why rsync asks for a passwd but ssh doesn't :-)