Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/06/06/21:18:50
Larry Hall wrote:
>Mister Fred Ma wrote:
>> Using an administrator account, I installed cygwin & sshd for all
>> users on Windows XP. The administrator account is local to the
>> machine, while my nonadministrator account is a domain power user
>> account. When I launch a cygwin bash shell as administrator, things
>> are fine. When I launch it as nonadministrator, I get the message
>>
>> Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that
>> the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
>> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
>> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group
>> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
>>
>> Here is what I did to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
>>
>> As administrator, I did
>>
>> mkpasswd -l >| /etc/passwd
>> mkgroup -l >| /etc/group
>>
>> As nonadministrator, I then did
>>
>> mkpasswd -d | ssh AdminAccount AT localhost "cat >> /etc/passwd"
>> mkgroup -d | ssh AdminAccount AT localhost "cat >> /etc/group"
>>
>> As an indication of proper functionality, I noted that I can
>> successfully log in using
>>
>> ssh AdminAccount AT localhost
>> ssh nonAdminAccount AT localhost
>>
>> Is there anything further I can do to avoid the warning message
>> at the start of this posting? As a possible clue, I noticed that
>> when I log onto Windows as nonAdministrator and start cygwin bash,
>> my home diretory ~ is
>>
>> /c/Documents and Settings/NonAdminAccount
>>
>> Here, c:\ is mounted as /c. When I ssh into
>> nonAdminAccount AT localhost, however, ~ becomes /home/NonAdminAccount,
>> which is c:\cygwin\home\NonAdminAccount.
>
>
>'ssh' uses the information in your '/etc/passwd' file to determine your
>home directory. You can use the '-h' flag to mkpasswd to set this as
>you desire, if the default is not what you want.
>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> cygcheck -cvs output, as queried from NonAdminAccount
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Please don't append this information,
Apologies -- I did this because it was requested in the past.
Common practice and expectations might have changed since.
Thanks for the tip on setting the ssh login directory.
Fred
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