X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:59:42 -0500 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <4655A077.60407@gmail.com> <4655A398.80504@u.washington.edu> <4656341F.2000603@u.washington.edu> <46565B7E.906@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: <46565B7E.906@u.washington.edu> OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Dan Miller wrote: > Ok....Rene you are the woman! Thank you so much. Er ... actually Ren=E9 is a male name, Renee is the female equivalent (I kn= ow, there is Rene Russo and others that have the wrong name, but what do they k= now, the name comes from France). > I was sort of blowing > off the event log because it appeared that windows couldn't determine > what the problem was...but at the very end it said user dan not allowed > because shell /bin/bash is not executable. so I chmod 700 /bin/bash.exe > and I'm in!! It worked It actually worked!! :-) Any idea why this was > set up this way...doesn't seem to be a problem I've come across in other > peoples efforts to get this going. No, I've never seen this, very strange. I have 750 for bash's permissions (-rwxr-x---), your other user may have problems if both login at the same t= ime. > Anyway, so now I can ssh into the computer as user dan which has a > local login etc. I want to add another user that has a user account on > the computer but is not allowed to login interactively to windows. Can > you tell me how to do that? The user needs a password... and he might not have a home directory (on fir= st login it is created by the shell). > I can't seem to su within cygwin to rerun > ssh-user-config. How do I set up another user in cygwin and then switch > to that user and run the ssh-user-config script? I made a folder in the > home directory for the new user, but it doesn't have the standard bash > files. Thanks again! The new user doesn't need to run ssh-user-config, that only creates the def= ault ~/.ssh directory with some defaults, and the keys which are only necessary = for public key authentication. You can login as the second user as it is now, = just make sure the home is the correct one, then he can run the script. --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/