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I am trying to setup ssh and ssh to localhost on Cygwin, but I am getting the following error. Any suggestions will be appreciated:

$ ssh -v localhost
OpenSSH_6.0p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/fx86/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/fx86/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/fx86/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/fx86/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/fx86/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/fx86/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.0
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.0 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: ECDSA 83:47:37:29:aa:9b:f4:38:2c:e3:97:b6:af:96:46:ae
debug1: Host 'localhost' is known and matches the ECDSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/fx86/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_ecdsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/fx86/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/fx86/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Trying private key: /home/fx86/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: password
fx86@localhost's password:
debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).
Authenticated to localhost ([::1]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Requesting [email protected]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Connection to localhost closed by remote host.
Connection to localhost closed.
Transferred: sent 2136, received 1504 bytes, in 0.0 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 71143.0, received 50093.2
debug1: Exit status -1

Executed /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d and got:

debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_6.0p1
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: private host key: #0 type 1 RSA
debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA
debug1: private host key: #1 type 2 DSA
debug1: read PEM private key done: type ECDSA
debug1: private host key: #2 type 3 ECDSA
/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
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  • Can you paste the output of auth.log when you try to login, it will be there on all ubuntu machines. tailf /var/log/auth.log
    – ZVIK
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 7:09
  • its not present. I am doing this on Cygwin. Had missed out on putting this bit of information; have updated the question. under var/log/ , I only have these files: lastlog setup.log setup.log.full sshd.log
    – fixxxer
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 7:24
  • It's the logs on the server you'll want to look at. Start sshd in debug mode if you can't find anything already logged in your system logs.
    – Michael Hampton
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 7:24
  • added the last paragraph in the question. Does it help ?
    – fixxxer
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 8:20

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The permissions on /var/empty aren't correct.

Try this:

 chown root:root /var/empty
 chmod 755 /var/empty
 chmod 711 /var/empty/sshd
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