X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: "/bin/bash: permission denied" on WinXP 2003 x64 solved (privilege problem) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:33:41 -0700 Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <20070813112930.GB17084@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070813122111.GV8535@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <20070813122111.GV8535@calimero.vinschen.de> 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 13 04:53, Brian Kasper wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>> As it turns out, all my problems were caused by the fact that the >>>> sshd_server user being created by the ssh-host-config script was not >>>> being given all the required privileges. >>> This is weird. The ssh-host-config script usually makes sure that >>> the sshd_server user got all required privileges. See the script >>> at line 517ff. >> I'm not at work right now, and unfortunately I can't access the gmane >> news server from work, but I'll check out the script. I agree it's >> weird; perhaps it's due to either the 64-bitness of the OS, or the fact >> that the OS is (as far as I know) based on the server version of Windows >> XP .... > > I just re-read your OP. There's a misunderstanding here. Windows XP is > NT kernel version 5.1. Windows 2003 Server (*not* XP 2003 Server) is > NT kernel version 5.2. Windows 2003 Server is a newer OS than XP, and > has a newer kernel, with different features and behaviour than the > XP kernel. > > Windows 2003 Server x64, as well as the client OS XP x64 are both based > on the 5.2 kernel. Thus, XP x64 is more similar to 2003 Server than to > it's 32 bit XP counterpart. > > The user privilege handling of the 5.2 kernel differs in two points > from the handling in XP. None of these differences should account for > what you observed. Just FYI, I set up ssh servers on 2003 32 and 64 > bit, as well as on XP 32 and 64 using ssh-host-config without any > problems. There muyst have been some satrange side-effect on your > machine. > > If you're willing to experiment, I'd suggest to remove the sshd-service, > as well as the sshd and sshd_server user accounts entirely. Also remove > /etc/ssh* and /var/empty. Then start ssh-host-config again and see what > happens. Afterwards you can check with editrights again if everything's > correctly set up. If not, and if the script didn't bail out with > > Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'sshd_server' failed! > Can't create sshd service! > > there's a bug in the script. Otherwise, if you got the above error > message, it might be interesting to learn why this happens. OTOH, if > the scipt runs fine this time, well, *shrug*. > >> If I get the chance, I'll delete the sshd_server user from that system >> and re-run the ssh-host-config script to see what privileges it assigns >> to sshd_server. > > Oh, hmm, I wrote the above before reading further in your mail... :) I do recall having something similarly wrong with the ssh-host-config when I was working at a client's site a while back. Something, IIRC, to do with domain policies overriding local policies such that when trying to ssh into the server I was receiving similar behavior (i.e. /bin/bash: permission denied). I queried a few times here but never worked out the problem and ended up using rsh instead. I no longer have access to the client's site however. Could it be something like this in your situation too? -- Andrew DeFaria A flying saucer results when a nudist spills his coffee. -- 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/