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 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:52:13 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation Message-ID: <20030805175213.GC221723@niksula.cs.hut.fi> References: <20030805150743.GB221723@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:22:58AM -0400, you [Igor Pechtchanski] wrote: > > Well, how about getting a SYSTEM-owned shell and checking? ;-) I didn't think of that. Silly me. > Make sure the SYSTEM user doesn't have any *user* mounts (by running > "mount" from a SYSTEM-owned shell). Spot on. C: on / type system (textmode) (As I said, I didn't initially install cygwin on this machine, so I don't know where the spurious mount came from.) After changing /etc/ssh* back to SYSTEM's ownership, and removing the mount, I can execute /usr/sbin/sshd from the "at /interactive" SYSTEM bash. Starting service as SYSTEM still fails: sshd : PID 929 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation not permitted. but I definetely got forward. Thanks. > P.S. For instructions on getting a SYSTEM-owned shell, search Google for > "at /interactive" on "cygwin.com". Thanks, I would have had trouble figuring that out. -- v -- v@iki.fi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/