Is this any help ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php
> -----Original Message----- > From: Soren A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 June 2003 10:14 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me > > > "Soren A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > Attachment decoded: cygcheck.2003.Jun.22 > > --==_=_====____37794.70672821764D1BD3B9== > > Sheesh. Did Gmane trip me up? There WAS all this text before the > attached `cygcheck` output: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hello! > > I've been trying to set up ProFTP on a WinXP Home Edition system with > Cygwin and it isn't working. > > My efforts include reading "README.cygwin" under /usr/doc/proftpd/ and > making the suggested changes (insofar as I could understand > the meanings > in the document) to /etc/proftpd.conf. > > I understand that the ftpd has to have privs like "SYSTEM" and that > looking at past List messages, Jason Tischler says "run it as > LocalSystem" user. I don't know what OS Jason is talking > about as there > is no such user "LocalSystem" on WinXP (yet XP is decended from NT). > > So in the /etc/proftpd.conf file I have lines like: > > User SYSTEM > Group Administrators > > but when I try to run proftpd, it refuses to start because it won't > change user context. The user I run Cygwin as apparently doesn't have > sufficient perms to change user context like this. I don't know how to > add such rights to the account: the user IS (*IS* *IS* *IS*) an > "Administrator" on the local system (was created that way). > > Can anyone loan me a clue about what can be done to fix this, > i.e. give > my user account sufficient perms to run proftpd as "SYSTEM"? > > The user management interface on WinXP that is where I'd look for > changes like those available under NT4, for changes various > user rights, > just isn't there, AFAICT. > > Alternatively, is there anything that can be done to convince > ProFTPd to > run as another user? > > I've tried (since the original broken posting) to start ProFTPd as > another user via "runas", but it won't start the service that > way (I ran > the config script and then runas "net start proftpd"). The service > appears in the Admin tool under "services" but trying to restart it > always fails (i.e. it is always in a "stopped" state). Also I > cannot get > a commandline to "runas" that will work from bash, my only > success has > been from a CMD.exe prompt. > > How are people doing this? > > Sorry to be bitchy about it and thanks to all those who have > contributed > to this port. > > Soren A. > > > PS. I am posting from Gmane. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
