At the moment, the more infuriating problem is the inability to login over ssh. So I guess my question is: where does ssh check the passwd? /etc/passwd doesn't seem to contain the information, and I was under the impression that the windows and the cygwin passwords were not synchronized.
While I'm on it: why does passwd say 5 letters minimum, 8 letters maximum for a password? Thanks, Dan ----- Original Message ----- To: "Daniel Danger Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Daniel Danger Bentley wrote: > > > I attempted to create a new account on my machine. I added the user in XP. > > Then I did mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd. I started and stopped sshd using net. > > Also, I may have inadvertantly used passwd on both the old and new account > > to change the passwd. I have since mkpasswd -l'ed and passwd'ed each > > account to the password I want. But when I ssh in, I can login to neither > > account. Any ideas? > > Daniel, > > Do the accounts have valid SIDs? Do they belong to groups that have valid > SIDs in your /etc/group file? Is the default shell for each user > executable by that user? Is a user's home directory accessible by that > user? What does adding a '-vvv' flag to ssh show? > > > Also, when I just use login to log into the new account, I get permission > > denied on /bin/bash. Any ideas there? > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > Does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID> make things > clearer? > Igor > -- -- 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/
