X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:48:15 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh problem using publickey in domain environment Message-ID: <20100224164815.GD5683@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <096385baeda76b4b83f591937a5e50b1f5f81434@localhost> <4B8411E4.6040400@cygwin.com> <20100224101355.GA29779@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Feb 24 07:44, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > 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}. IMHO that's not a good idea. The passwd and group files should be regenerated at this point to get a stable, well-defined state, and then you can re-add any local changes at your heart's content. YMMV, of course. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple