On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:23:46PM +0900, melchior wrote: > Hi there guys... > > i'm cross posting, and i'm sorry to those of you who also subscribe to > ssh-l. just hoping someone here might be able to lend a hand. thanks. > > so, i want to run ssh under cygwin on a win xp > computer. but i am having problems... specifically with > groups, at least > that's what i think. You can see that the cygwin is having a problem with > the group system:system.... and also below are the results of things that > might be beneficial. I'm not sure how things are supposed to look in > /etc/passwd and /etc/group so any help would be greatly appreciated. > thanks. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:{40}:$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Last login: Sun Mar 23 22:23:41 2003 from localhost > setgid: Invalid argument > Connection to localhost closed. > > --------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:{65}:$ ssh-host-config -y > chown: `system.system': invalid group > Generating /etc/ssh_config file > Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3. > However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'. > For more info on privilege separation read > /usr/doc/openssh/README.privsep. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:{58}:$ groups > mkgroup
This indicates that you should run mkgroup to create /etc/group: mkgroup -l > /etc/group Pierre -- 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/