X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: proftpd as a service under 2003 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:29:57 -0500 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows/20070716) In-Reply-To: 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 Chris Stromsoe wrote: ... >> How did you setup proftpd as service? >=20 > cygrunsrv --install proftpd --path /usr/sbin/proftpd.exe --args > "nodaemon" --type auto --disp "Cygwin proftpd" --desc "ProFTP FTP > daemon" --user sshd_server -e CYGWIN=3D"ntsec" Is that a typo? the option nodaemon is written as --nodaemon or -n. > "cygrunsrv --start proftpd" after that fails. >=20 ... > If I run without specifying --user, proftpd runs as SYSTEM. It does not > change users at all. If I log in with other users and upload files, the > files all end up owned by the SYSTEM user. I know all about that, but you can see your result, the error message you p= osted clearly states that the user could not change to SYSTEM... again: did you configyro proftpd correctly? ... > I don't have inetd installed. It's a stripped down installation. In > any event, it's not clear to me that running from inetd would help. The > problem seems to be related changing users, which proftpd would still > have to do running under inetd. Yes, and it works fine under Win XP, so it must be something missing in your user sshd_server privileges. --=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/