CYGWIN - Starting sshd: Privilege separation user does not exist
The other day, I could start the CYGWIN sshd service on my Windows Server 2008 R. It said: "The cygwin sshd service started and then stopped" I then looked at the logs at C:\cygwin64\var\log\sshd.log : "Privilege separation user sshd does not exist" I did the following and was able to start cygwin sshd: 1. Edit the file /etc/passwd and add the below line: sshd:x:74:74:Privilege-separated SSH:/var/empty/sshd:/sbin/nologin 2. and the below line in the /etc/group file: sshd:x:74: 3. Then I can start CYGWIN sshd service again.