On Apr 4 13:16, Karl M wrote: > > > Hi All... > > > On a recent Cygwin install on a new win7-64 machine, I ran into a problem. > The ssh service would not start because the protection on the > /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key was too weak. (I use only the rsa host key.) > > If I chmod the file to 600, all is well. But...if I do it within a shell > script, the chmod has no effect. Below is a short test case and a bash -x run > of the script? > > > $ cat test-config > chown administrators /etc/ssh* > ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > chmod -v 600 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > $ cat test-config > chown administrators /etc/ssh* > ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > chmod -v 600 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > > > $ bash -x test-config > + chown administrators /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub > /etc/sshd_config > + ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > -rw-rw---- 1 Administrators root 1675 Apr 4 11:30 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > + chmod -v 600 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > mode of `/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key' changed from 0660 (rw-rw----) to 0600 > (rw-------) > + ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > -rw-rw---- 1 Administrators root 1675 Apr 4 11:30 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key > > This test was on a fresh (1.7.12) from this morning.
There's your problem: The Administrators group and the root group are just two different Cygwin group names for the same Windows group with SID S-1-5-32-544. So, the above POSIX permissions are a result of the SID S-1.5.32.544 having rw- permissions. Apart from that, the owner of the /etc/ssh* files should be cyg_server, not the admins group. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
