Patrick Aikens wrote: > I've installed cygwin 1.5 on my WHS box as Administrator. I've opened a > cygwin terminal and executed the mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and mkgroup > -l > /etc/group commands, executed ssh-host-setup and used privilege > separation, and everything seems to have executed OK. I can ssh to that > machine as Administrator just fine using password auth. However, I > can't ssh in as any other user on that machine using password > authentication - I get told that the password is incorrect, which I know > it isn't. I can use key-based auth to login as any user, so I do have a > workaround, but I'm curious as to why no user but Administrator can use > password auth to log in? I've logged in via remote desktop as the user > I wish to SSH as and ran ssh-user-config as that user (that's how I got > the key-based login working). I haven't done that as Administrator, > though, and it still lets me log in just fine there. > > Sorry if this is a bit rambling, but I've been working on this problem > for a while and it's getting late where I am... cygcheck.out is attached. >
So, is this expected behavior then? Is it only possible to log in as the user that installed the server using password authentication? -- 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/
