On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, René Berber wrote:
Chris Stromsoe wrote:
How did you setup proftpd as service?
cygrunsrv --install proftpd --path /usr/sbin/proftpd.exe --args
"nodaemon" --type auto --disp "Cygwin proftpd" --desc "ProFTP FTP
daemon" --user sshd_server -e CYGWIN="ntsec"
Is that a typo? the option nodaemon is written as --nodaemon or -n.
it's a typo. It's "--nodaemon".
"cygrunsrv --start proftpd" after that fails.
...
If I run without specifying --user, proftpd runs as SYSTEM. It does not
change users at all. If I log in with other users and upload files, the
files all end up owned by the SYSTEM user.
I know all about that, but you can see your result, the error message
you posted clearly states that the user could not change to SYSTEM...
again: did you configyro proftpd correctly?
It's the default configuration.
Which, it turns out is the problem. Thanks for the hint. Apparently, the
created user (sshd_server) can't switch to SYSTEM at startup, but has no
problems switching to other users after proftpd is already running. So
/etc/proftpd.conf needs to specify the same user that you give to
cygrunsrv, or it won't start the service.
-Chris
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