Hi Corinna, Regarding the first problem: > > a) Group permissions on root folders
On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 13:44:44 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The group permission problem is easy (and I'm wondering if it really was > such a bright idea to let user SID == group SID slip through in Cygwin, > rather tnan sticking to the former idea to change the group SID to > "Users" in this case). csih needs a patch to not check for the group > x bit if user SID == group SID. Do you intend a patch like this? I have confirmed that sshd is successfully installed and works nicely with this patch under a Microsoft Account. --- cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh.orig 2015-02-24 04:57:56.000000000 +0900 +++ cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh 2015-09-11 18:41:56.870882800 +0900 @@ -2442,6 +2442,8 @@ # ====================================================================== _csih_setup() { + local perms="d..x..x..[xt]" + csih_stacktrace "${@}" $_csih_trace if [ "$_csih_setup_already_called" -eq 0 ] @@ -2462,7 +2464,13 @@ csih_error "Problem with LocalSystem or Adminstrator IDs" fi - if ! csih_check_dir_perms "${LOCALSTATEDIR}" "d..x..x..[xt]" + if [ `/usr/bin/stat -c '%g' ${LOCALSTATEDIR}` -eq \ + `/usr/bin/stat -c '%u' ${LOCALSTATEDIR}` ] + then + perms="d..x.....[xt]" + fi + + if ! csih_check_dir_perms "${LOCALSTATEDIR}" "${perms}" then csih_error "Problem with ${LOCALSTATEDIR} directory. Exiting." fi -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple