Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/09/14/15:25:54
On 14/09/2011 11:08 AM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> On 9/13/2011 13:38, Larson, Donald (Don) wrote:
>> I understand "su" does not work – answer use ssh. SSHD cannot start
>> because user sshd cannot login. I run login sshd type in the
>> password and then I get the message.
> What you're saying is that you want a way to log in as another user as
> one would with the "su" command, right? If so, you need to get the sshd
> service working first so that you can at least log in as yourself. The
> process for doing that is documented in
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. Read this carefully. If you have
> problems with this part, submit a problem report as Larry suggested.
>
> When things work, you should be able to run something like the following
> command to log in as yourself over SSH:
>
> $ ssh your_username AT localhost
>
> Once you're able to log in as yourself, you can set up account details
> for other accounts in /etc/passwd in order to allow yourself to log in
> via SSH using those accounts. The mkpasswd program will help you here.
>
> This is the "tricky" part. For accounts that have no password such as
> the SYSTEM account or for accounts whose passwords you do not know, you
> need to set up public key authentication so that you can authenticate
> over SSH without a password. You may also need to make some manual
> edits to your /etc/passwd file in order to set home directories and
> shells for accounts such as SYSTEM where those settings are not defined
> by default.
>
> If you need details for how to use public key authentication with SSH,
> there are numerous articles available online. For your needs here,
> there is nothing Cygwin specific about setting this up.
>
> This is what I did just now to allow me to log in as the SYSTEM account:
>
> 1) Create the directory /root/.ssh.
> 2) Copy your SSH public key file to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys.
> 3) Set the owner of /root and its contents to SYSTEM.
> 4) Open the /etc/passwd file in a text editor.
> 5) Modify the line that starts with SYSTEM as follows:
> a) Insert /root before the last colon on the line.
> b) Append /bin/bash after the last colon on the line.
> 6) Save the changes.
>
> Now you should be able to log into the SYSTEM account by running:
>
> $ ssh SYSTEM AT localhost
Question: in my experience sshd will not allow connections to users who
have no password set, even when password-auth is not used. This happened
on my wife's laptop, for example, where I ended up having to create a
dummy user for myself that had a password, since she didn't want her
account to have one.
Does SYSTEM have some sort of password after all?
Ryan
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