X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Ludovic Drolez Subject: Re: Domain change: permission denied in sshd Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:39:44 +0100 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <4382EBEA.2070004@linbox.com> <4383C2C7.8000604@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 In-Reply-To: <4383C2C7.8000604@cygwin.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > 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. > Since the SID change is done with Sysprep, we have now a script which updates /etc/passwd during sysprep. Just updating with the new SID works ! Cheers, -- Ludovic DROLEZ Linbox / Free&ALter Soft http://lrs.linbox.org -- 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/