Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/30/22:39:07
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:46PM +0000, Jacob Kitzman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This cygwin stuff is pretty slick! I'm hitting one snag, though, as I am trying
> to setup sshd for remote access by limited users.
>
> I've made a user "dnr" which is a member of the group "Limited SSHD users" (gid
> 1006). After mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l'ing, I've manually set the gid of user
> dnr to 1006 in /etc/passwd. Running as Administrator, id yields the expected
> result:
>
> Administrator AT walz-bemaster ~
> $ id dnr
> uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(Limited SSHD users) groups=1006(Limited SSHD users)
>
> However, when I ssh in to dnr AT localhost, cygwin doesn't seem to be able to find
> a group with gid 1006. (And I get the message upon login that your group is
> currently "mkgroup")
>
> dnr AT walz-bemaster ~
> $ id dnr
> uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(mkgroup) groups=1006(mkgroup)
>
> Is there some local policy I need to set for the group "Limited SSHD users"?
> Any ideas for a workaround?
What are the permissions of /etc/group ?
Pierre
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