On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:14:51PM -0500, Doug Lim wrote: >On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:37:42PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Doug Lim wrote: >>>After a bit more research on the problem, I found a discussion thread >>>on the web discussing a similar problem from 2006. The difference is >>>that the thread discusses scp connections dropping immediately after >>>non-administrator authentication. >>> >>>http://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3782 >>> >>>A response to a thread from March of this year indicates that copying >>>all of the DLL files from cygwin\usr\bin to cygwin\usr\sbin as a >>>workaround. I've copied the DLL files on my server per the workaround >>>and now non-administrator users are able to use sftp. >>> >>>I've attached a copy of cygcheck.out from the server where this is >>>happening. >> >>That sounds like a pretty <insert negative adjective here> workaround. >> >>Just setting the PATH to include cygwin's bin directory is likely to >>work better. I know that someone in that thread said that they did >>that already but I'm not convinced that they really knew what they were >>doing. > >Except, cygwin\bin was already in the path as indicated in the >cygcheck.out I attached.
The cygcheck.out file shows that the cygwin directory was in the PATH when you ran the cygcheck program. It doesn't necessarily mean that it is the path that a service sees. >It doesn't explain why users belonging to the Local Administrators >group would be able to maintain an SFTP connection while >non-Administrators would get dropped immediately following >authentication. Copying a bunch of DLLs to /usr/sbin doesn't explain this either. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
