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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject: Re: ssh problem using publickey in domain environment
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:44:25 -0800
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On 02/24/2010 02:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 23 12:35, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 02/23/2010 12:01 PM, Jukka Inkeri wrote:
>>> If your server is member of domain, howto make users, sshd, (which
>>> order) ... without setuid problem when using publickey auth ? cyg_server
>>> and sshd - domain user or local or both, ???
>>
>> In order for the SSH server to switch user context to a domain user,
>> the service's user (cyg_server) must be a domain user with the rights
>> outlined in 'ssh-host-config'. I'm not sure if it's a requirement that
>> the 'sshd' user also be a domain user. I've never played with that.
>
> I added a FAQ entry lately:
>
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain
You might want to change that to:

$ mkpasswd -l -d your_domain>>  /etc/passwd
$ mkgroup -l -d your_domain>>  /etc/group

so as not to destroy whatever the user had in /etc/{passwd,group}.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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