Subject: RE: ssh patches to fix installation issues
From: "Morrison, John" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:32:04 +0100

The default umask has been changed, but the new /etc/profile
won't have overwrote your old one.

J.

> From: Ross Smith II [mailto:[email-masked]]
> 
> Attached are three small patches to the following files:
> 
> /bin/ssh-host-config
> /bin/ssh-user-config
> /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.4p1-5.README
> 
> to fix some installation issues and better explain using sshd 
> in Windows.
> 
> The ssh-user-config changes are due to the fact that the 
> default cygwin
> umask is 000. Maybe a .bash_profile could be created 
> containing umask 022
> when the user's home directory is first created.  Just a thought.
> 
> This is the culmination of 6 hours of list perusing, and hair 
> pulling, so
> it's definitely "field tested".
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ross Smith
> 
> --- ssh-host-config.orig	2002-07-07 03:07:12.000000000 -0700
> +++ ssh-host-config	2002-10-23 16:11:12.000000000 -0700
> @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@
>    if [ $_nt -gt 0 ]
>    then
>      chown system.system /var/empty
> +    chmod 755 /var/empty
>    fi
>  fi
> 
> --- ssh-user-config.orig	2002-06-21 13:32:33.000000000 -0700
> +++ ssh-user-config	2002-10-23 16:15:24.000000000 -0700
> @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@
>    fi
>  fi
> 
> +chown `whoami` ${pwdhome}
> +
>  if [ -e "${pwdhome}/.ssh" -a ! -d "${pwdhome}/.ssh" ]
>  then
>    echo "${pwdhome}/.ssh is existant but not a directory. 
> Cannot create user
> identity files."
> @@ -139,6 +141,8 @@
>    fi
>  fi
> 
> +chmod 755 ${pwdhome}/.ssh
> +
>  if [ ! -f "${pwdhome}/.ssh/identity" ]
>  then
>    if request "Shall I create an SSH1 RSA identity file for you?"
> @@ -196,5 +200,8 @@
>    fi
>  fi
> 
> +chmod 600 ${pwdhome}/.ssh/*
> +chmod 644 ${pwdhome}/.ssh/*.pub ${pwdhome}/.ssh/authorized_keys?
> +
>  echo
>  echo "Configuration finished. Have fun!"
> 
> --- openssh-3.4p1-5.README.orig	2002-10-23 
> 15:20:39.000000000 -0700
> +++ openssh-3.4p1-5.README	2002-10-23 16:23:03.000000000 -0700
> @@ -123,12 +123,53 @@
> 
>  - If you want to authenticate via RSA and you want to login to that
>    machine to exactly one user account you can do so by running sshd
> -  under that user account. You must change /etc/sshd_config
> -  to contain the following:
> +  under that user account.
> +
> +  * Change /etc/sshd_config to contain
> 
>    RSAAuthentication yes
> 
> -  Moreover it's possible to use rhosts and/or rhosts with
> +  * Make sure you have executed the following:
> +
> +    $ ssh-host-config
> +    $ ssh-user-config
> +
> +  * Due to the fact that cygwin's default umask is 0000, you 
> will need
> +    to execute the following (substituting your user name 
> for USERNAME):
> +
> +	chown USERNAME ~
> +	chmod 755 ~ ~/.ssh
> +	chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*
> +	chmod 644 ~/.ssh/*.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys?
> +
> +  * Reinstall the ssh daemon to run as the user. Execute the 
> following
> +    (substituting your user name for USERNAME, and your password for
> PASSWORD):
> +
> +	chmod 666 /var/log/sshd.log /var/empty
> +	rm -fr /var/log/sshd.log /var/empty
> +	touch /var/log/sshd.log
> +	chmod 644 /var/log/sshd.log
> +	chmod 755 /var/empty
> +	chown USERNAME.None /var/empty /etc/ssh_host_* /var/log/sshd.log
> +	cygrunsrv --stop sshd
> +	cygrunsrv --remove sshd
> +	cygrunsrv --install sshd -e "CYGWIN=glob ntsec binmode" \
> +	   -u USERNAME \
> +	   -w "PASSWORD" \
> +	   -d "sshd" \
> +	   -p /usr/sbin/sshd.exe \
> +	   -1 /var/log/sshd.log \
> +	   -2 /var/log/sshd.log \
> +	   -a "-e -D"
> +	cygrunsrv --start sshd
> +
> +  * NOTE: The user will not be able to login using their 
> Windows password.
> +    They will only be able to login using RSA authentication.
> +
> +    Therefore, you will need to copy your identity.pub and id_??a.pub
> +    files into authorized_keys, and authorized_keys2, respectfully.
> +
> +  Moreover, it's possible to use rhosts and/or rhosts with
>    RSA authentication by setting the following in sshd_config:
> 
>    RhostsAuthentication yes
> 

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