Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00da01c2336a$b940b210$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: <20020724163138.F3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020724201757.GC21112@redhat.com> Subject: Re: W2K and sshd, ssh - asks for password Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:34:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Brian Keener wrote: > You are 100% right in both cases - Had Corinna not pointed it out, I > know you would have and cygwin-apps was not the appropriate place to > post. At the time I wrote it, cygwin-apps seemed appropriate (in my > mind) but I should have gone to the web and reread the description of > what goes in cygwin-apps versus cygwin. I was wrong in my choice. OK, no ones memory is perfect (mine just being plain strange - I can tell you the registration numbers of all the series-leading ships in Star Trek, bu won't necessarily know what day it is :-) ) Lets continue on cygwin@ >> Max Bowsher wrote: >> Why the lousy attitude? > > The lousy attitude stems from the fact that I sometimes feel the > responses (not just to me) are sometimes a bit more terse than need > me. True. I think that the sheer volume of Cygwin mail reduces tolerance levels somewhat. ...snip... > As to the rest of Max's comments: > >> 1. Corinna was entirely justified - your question has no place on >> cygwin-apps > > Correct. As I said previously it was not the lesson but the method > of teaching. I agree, as above. >> 2. The Red Hat people on the lists are usually very busy. Be kind to >> them. > > Yes they are - I am immensly impressed by them and their talents. Definitely - me too! > Would that I could program as well and tackle some of the projects > and problems they do. Ditto :-) >> 3. Just because Corinna may be the person you think is most >> qualified to help you, don't assume that no one else can. Now, I had >> a similar problem, which I > > Again Max is correct - I was sure others could help but I was also > sure Corinna was a prime candidate for recognizing what was wrong > (besides the wrong newsgroup :-) ) I am glad I was able to jog Max's > memory on his problem and also that he has offered to help me on mine. > > I will attempt the steps Max describes later this evening or tomorrow > and post the results as requested (to the Cygwin list). For the record, at least part of the problem was a CYGWIN=ntsec foulup. I'd intended to enter it in the system env vars box, but had actually put it in the user env vars box. Ooops! > As to the discussion of ntsec being required and whether or not NTFS > was or was not required - I thought I remembered reading that NTFS > was a requirement for ntsec to work and therefore if sshd and the > authentication require ntsec then they would also require NTFS? I think that only the POSIX file mode using ACLs requires NTFS. The rest of what ntsec does just requires an NT OS, and FAT will do. Max. -- 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/