Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/02/24/11:57:15
On 02/24/2010 08:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 24 07:44, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> On 02/24/2010 02:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 23 12:35, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/23/2010 12:01 PM, Jukka Inkeri wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If your server is member of domain, howto make users, sshd, (which
>>>>> order) ... without setuid problem when using publickey auth ? cyg_server
>>>>> and sshd - domain user or local or both, ???
>>>>>
>>>> In order for the SSH server to switch user context to a domain user,
>>>> the service's user (cyg_server) must be a domain user with the rights
>>>> outlined in 'ssh-host-config'. I'm not sure if it's a requirement that
>>>> the 'sshd' user also be a domain user. I've never played with that.
>>>>
>>> I added a FAQ entry lately:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain
>>>
>> You might want to change that to:
>>
>> $ mkpasswd -l -d your_domain>> /etc/passwd
>> $ mkgroup -l -d your_domain>> /etc/group
>>
>> so as not to destroy whatever the user had in /etc/{passwd,group}.
>>
> IMHO that's not a good idea. The passwd and group files should be
> regenerated at this point to get a stable, well-defined state, and then
> you can re-add any local changes at your heart's content. YMMV, of
> course.
>
I mistyped. If all that was really required was getting cyg_server in
there then perhaps -u cyg_server should have been used. In any event I
think you should point out that this will replace the current
/etc/{passwd,group}
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