Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/30/13:23:56
Hi...
Has anyone here played with Windows XP (Whistler Build 2458) and Cygwin yet?
I noticed some really funky permissions related problems. As usual, Cygwin
is installed on an NTFS partition and my environment has CYGWIN=ntsec.
I change the default cygwin file permissions (chown -R
administrators.administrators /; chmod -R og-w /; chmod -R a+rwxt /tmp;
chmod -R mike.administrators /home/mike).
After running ssh-host-config, I change the ownership of the host key files
(chown system.system /etc/ssh_host*_key).
As soon as I run ssh anything, I get a bad ownership mode for the host keys
(should be 0600)... Hehe... they are.
So, I changed the permissions back to defaults (chown -R
administrators.administrators /; chmod -R 777 /) and removed the ntsec
designator from the CYGWIN variable and rebooted.
Now, I can log into my Cygwin ssh server without issue. I can also connect
from my Cygwin box to other ssh servers without issue.
Please note: I'm only posting this as an FYI... I'm not looking for a fix or
anything, especially since Windows XP is still in beta.
Interestingly, though, going through the Cygwin files through Windows
Explorer, even though ssh_host_key was owned by system.system and had 0600
permissions, the file showed that Everyone, Mike and Users had "Special
Permissions" including Read, Read attributes, . . .
Other than that, though, Windows XP is pretty cool.
-ME
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