On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Doug Lim wrote: >After a bit more research on the problem, I found a discussion thread on >the web discussing a similar problem from 2006. The difference is that >the thread discusses scp connections dropping immediately after >non-administrator authentication. > >http://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3782 > >A response to a thread from March of this year indicates that copying >all of the DLL files from cygwin\usr\bin to cygwin\usr\sbin as a >workaround. I've copied the DLL files on my server per the workaround >and now non-administrator users are able to use sftp. > >I've attached a copy of cygcheck.out from the server where this is >happening.
That sounds like a pretty <insert negative adjective here> workaround. Just setting the PATH to include cygwin's bin directory is likely to work better. I know that someone in that thread said that they did that already but I'm not convinced that they really knew what they were doing. cgf -- 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
