Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:00:24 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod/chown + ntsec doesn't work (was OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems) Message-ID: <20011026200024.A7622@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3BBDC64A.62A1E696@cportcorp.com> <20011025141244.A1888@dothill.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:12:44PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > Peter, > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote: > > But, chown still doesn't work. > > I just stumbled over chown not working under certain conditions from > a ssh login myself. If I ssh into a domain machine without supplying > a password, then I seem to be restricted in the operations that I > can do -- even though I am a member of the local Administrators group. > For example, I cannot chown a (local) file nor start/stop a service. > However, if I ssh via password exchange, then I can perform these operations. > > On the other hand, if I ssh to a workgroup machine, then I can perform > these operations regardless of how I authenticate. > > I know that it has been noted that one cannot access network shares from > a ssh login due to running under the LocalSystem account. But, I was > surprised by the chown and start/stop service restrictions since I > perceived them to be local operations. I'm surprised, too. I don't have a domain environment so I can't test that further. Are you sure that you're not just restricted due to either having /etc/passwd or /etc/group not setup correctly or actually having restrictions due to domain policy? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/