Patrick Aikens wrote: > 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?
Is 1.5 not supported anymore? I only see 1.7 questions getting answered, and nobody even tells me to get lost in 4 days... I apologize if I've violated some sort of mailing list rule with my ssh question, I thought I had fulfilled all the requirements of asking a question (including the cygcheck output), but it was late. -- 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/
