On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:46PM +0000, Jacob Kitzman wrote: > Hi, > > This cygwin stuff is pretty slick! I'm hitting one snag, though, as I am trying > to setup sshd for remote access by limited users. > > I've made a user "dnr" which is a member of the group "Limited SSHD users" (gid > 1006). After mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l'ing, I've manually set the gid of user > dnr to 1006 in /etc/passwd. Running as Administrator, id yields the expected > result: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ id dnr > uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(Limited SSHD users) groups=1006(Limited SSHD users) > > However, when I ssh in to [EMAIL PROTECTED], cygwin doesn't seem to be able to find > a group with gid 1006. (And I get the message upon login that your group is > currently "mkgroup") > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ id dnr > uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(mkgroup) groups=1006(mkgroup) > > Is there some local policy I need to set for the group "Limited SSHD users"? > Any ideas for a workaround?
What are the permissions of /etc/group ? Pierre -- 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/
