fyi, this is all about trying to get sshd to accept incoming connections. I want to use winscp into my xp box to move files.
I am very confused about what password sshd would use - does it use windows authentication or does it expect to find passwords in /etc/passwd? Can I choose? Thanks!! dsacks wrote: > > Hi, > > I've used cygwin before, but for the first time I did mkpasswd and mkgroup > and got it so that when go to a cygwin prompt, my id actually shows as my > windows username and I end up in /home/myusername. Woohoo. > > wait, if I try to vi /etc/sshd_config now I cannot write it, because it is > owned by SYSTEM and has restrictive rights. > > How do I edit system files now? I don't really grok the permission world > in cygwin and how unixy permissions and users map to windows. > > Another thing worth mentioning, I am running windows xp sp2 and it is part > of a domain. I am a domain user. I am also a member of Administrators on > the computer. > > Help? > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/system-account-files-mystery-tf2733714.html#a7627528 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
