Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/03/23:17:53
Sorry, Jim. I replied to you because you mailed me your last message
personally instead of to the list.
Everyone can write to /home. 546 is the Guests group.
Best regards,
Wu Yongwei
--- Original Message from Jim.George ---
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Wu Yongwei wrote:
> Thank you, but it will not do. The users used to be in the None group and
> inetd worked; they are now in the relevant groups (Administrators or
Guests)
> but inetd still does not work.
>
> Can you find problems in such a passwd file?
>
> ---
> Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
>
Administrator::500:544:U-WYW\Administrator,S-1-5-21-776561741-1383384898-170
> 8537768-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash
>
ftp::501:546:U-WYW\Guest,S-1-5-21-776561741-1383384898-1708537768-501:/home/
> ftp:/bin/false
> ---
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wu Yongwei
>
Please can you keep your questions/answers on-list so that all can
benefit?
I am suspicious of the ftp user account? What group has permissions to
the whole of /home?
Jim
> --- Original Message from Jim George ---
>
> This has been dealt with (recently) in the archives. It happened to me.
I
> think I had to remake passwd and group and ensure that my remote users
were
> in passwd and that they were not allocated the 'None' group.
>
> HTH
>
> Jim
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