X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4383C2C7.8000604@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:15:51 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ludovic Drolez CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Domain change: permission denied in sshd References: <4382EBEA.2070004@linbox.com> In-Reply-To: <4382EBEA.2070004@linbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Ludovic Drolez wrote: > Hi ! > > We use opensshd to remote admin windows systems. But If the SID is > changed we have the following problems: > - I can log in but we can see 'Could not chdir to home directory > /home/Administrateur: Permission denied'. And key based auth works even > if the home directory is not readable (?!) > - There's no way to update /etc/passwd via ssh to update the SID: > Permission denied > - So the only way seems to manually update the file from Windows :-( Right. If the SID that owned the file no longer exists, that's a Windows thing and the most efficient way to deal with it is from Windows. Just take ownership of the directory tree. > Is there another way ? If I disable 'ntsec', would it help ? Perhaps, but that's just delaying the inevitable. Fix the Windows problem. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/