Hi all, I think I may have answered my own question. It would appear that my problem DOES have something to do with setting CYGWIN to "ntsec tty". I'm reading the blurb now (http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html) and will post anything I find which might be useful to neophytes like myself.
Thanks for all feedback Winston Gutkowski -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Winston Gutkowski Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:09 To: Cygwin; Andrew Markebo Subject: RE: Can't create home directory To answer your questions in turn: / is c:\cygwin, I would assume therefore that /home is c:\cygwin\home and, yes, I am a domain user. The odd thing is I've had cygwin working on my machine before with no problems. Is this passwd change a new requirement? To my knowledge, the only change I made, at the suggestion of Michael Erdely's SSHD setup page (http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp) was to change the CYGWIN variable to "ntsec tty" (was just "tty"). He seems to suggest that this is the best setting for W2K with NTFS, although I have no idea what the "ntsec" means. Winston -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:44 To: Winston Gutkowski Subject: Re: Can't create home directory Where is /, /home, and are you on a domain, or it is local users?? If domain, you should probably upgrade the /etc/passwd as stated in the faq somewhere.. /Andy / "Winston Gutkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi, | | I'm trying to install cygwin to test the openssh server. I have had it on my | machine before and removed it, and am trying to install it again. I believe | I have gone through all the correct steps for uninstallation (registry | entries, environment variables and the like), but now, whenever I install, I | get errors as soon as I try to execute bash, saying that Administrator does | not have permissions to create /home/Administrator. | | I have tried changing ownership to 544:544, opening everything to 777, | setting the directory open to Everyone in Windows, but nothing seems to | work. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? I have tried to search | the archives, but could not find any entries. | | Thanks in advance | | Winston Gutkowski -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
