On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:48:55AM -0700, Ben Atkin wrote: >I've been using the standard cygwin distribution for setting up >ssh/sftp on Windows Server 2003. It's been working fine for the >Administrator account, but now I'd like to set up another account and >use that, just in case people see ssh running on a windows computer >and try running a password guesser on the Administrator account. > >There is a domain account that I'd like to use. I can get to it if I >ssh into the domain controller, but it won't work for other computers >on the domain. I searched for a solution, and I found mkpasswd. I ran >"mkpasswd -d (domain) -u (user)" and it worked without error and so I >appended the entry to /etc/passwd. > >To test it, I tried doing "su (username)". It prompts me for the >password, and after I enter the password, it says "su: cannot set >groups: Invalid argument". Does anyone have any idea why this error >might occur? I searched for my error message to no avail.
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