Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ville Herva wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:07:43AM -0400, you [Igor Pechtchanski] wrote: > > > > IIRC, the default installation of sshd as service used the event log for > > all output, rather than /var/log/sshd.log (though I'm not too sure on this > > one)... > > It certa

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-14 Thread Ville Herva
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:22:58AM -0400, you [Igor Pechtchanski] wrote: > > Well, how about getting a SYSTEM-owned shell and checking? ;-) I didn't think of that. Silly me. > Make sure the SYSTEM user doesn't have any *user* mounts (by running > "mount" from a SYSTEM-owned shell). Spot on.

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-09 Thread Larry Hall
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ville Herva wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:03:18PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives the same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that. What does /var/log/sshd.log say?

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-06 Thread Ville Herva
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:52:13PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote: > > > Make sure the SYSTEM user doesn't have any *user* mounts (by running > > "mount" from a SYSTEM-owned shell). > > Spot on. > > C: on / type system (textmode) (...) > Starting service as SYSTEM still fails: (...) > but I d

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-06 Thread Ville Herva
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:03:18PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: > > > >I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives > >the > >same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that. > > > > > What does /var/log/sshd.log say? It remains empty, on both servers. Based

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-05 Thread Ville Herva
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:07:43AM -0400, you [Igor Pechtchanski] wrote: > > IIRC, the default installation of sshd as service used the event log for > all output, rather than /var/log/sshd.log (though I'm not too sure on this > one)... It certainly seems to, in the event log, there are sshd gener

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ville Herva wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:03:18PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: > > > > > >I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives > > >the > > >same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that. > > > > > > > > > What does /var/log/ssh

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
Ville Herva wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: Please *attach* your cygcheck output next time rather than including it in the text of your message. Sorry. I suggest the following two changes. 1. Remove 'ntea' from your CYGWIN environment variable. It

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Ville Herva
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: > > Please *attach* your cygcheck output next time rather than including > it in the text of your message. Sorry. > I suggest the following two changes. > > 1. Remove 'ntea' from your CYGWIN environment variable. It still say

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Myk Melez
Larry Hall wrote: 1. SYSTEM is the account that sshd runs as, not administrator. Hmm, perhaps it's just a coincidence then that Administrator permissions correspond with sshd permissions. 2. Only the owner of the private key files in .ssh should have permissions to access these files. Publi

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Mark Priest
and I have not received the error you are describing. You might want > > to check the value of the CYGWIN environment variable. By default ntsec is > > turned on but if that variable includes "nontsec" or "ntea" then that might > > be what is causing your pro

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
Ville Herva wrote: I think I have somewhat similar problem with setting up sshd. It must be something stupid, but this has happened to me on two separate machines. As it happens, someone else had initially set up cygwin on both of them, so I don't know exactly what options were used (but I assume

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Ville Herva
I think I have somewhat similar problem with setting up sshd. It must be something stupid, but this has happened to me on two separate machines. As it happens, someone else had initially set up cygwin on both of them, so I don't know exactly what options were used (but I assume they are fairly defa

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
m: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Myk Melez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:40 PM Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation Myk Melez wrote: I have two machines with wha

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Priest
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Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
Myk Melez wrote: I have two machines with what look like identical cygwin installations on them, but the Administrator account on one of them doesn't have super-user privileges. This causes sshd not to have access to /home/some-user/.ssh (which is restricted to only "some-user") and thus prev

Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-07-31 Thread Myk Melez
I have two machines with what look like identical cygwin installations on them, but the Administrator account on one of them doesn't have super-user privileges. This causes sshd not to have access to /home/some-user/.ssh (which is restricted to only "some-user") and thus prevents key-based aut