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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:50:43 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: openssh problems - pointers to documentation?
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Looks, as if you try to change the user while sshd runs under an
account which doen't have this right. Note that Admins don't
have that right by default!

Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-2.2.0p1.README. You got it as part
of the standard installation.

Corinna


"Woods, Chris" wrote:
> 
> Hello all, trying to get openssh to work on an NT workstation.  Having some problems.  I am quite new to cygwin, but not to unix.
> Running openssh-2.2.0p1, and cygwin B20.  Any help would be mucho appreciated!
> 
> Here is the result of running /usr/sbin/sshd -d
> 
> #when user has connected remotely using ssh -l Administrator
> debug: userauth-request for user Administrator service ssh-connection method none
> Failed none for Administrator from 10.16.18.230 port 41826 ssh2
> debug: userauth-request for user Administrator service ssh-connection method none
> Failed none for Administrator from 10.16.18.230 port 41826 ssh2
> 
> #When user tries to enter the password for the Administrator account
> debug: userauth-request for user Administrator service ssh-connection method password
> Failed password for Administrator from 10.16.18.230 port 41
> 
> Here is the relevant parts of /etc/sshd_config:
> PermitRootLogin no
> RhostsAuthentication no
> RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> RSAAuthentication no
> PasswordAuthentication yes
> PermitEmptyPasswords no
> 
> I did a mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd and Administrator is in there:
> Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-2979708705-1370865285-570841823-500::/bin/sh
> Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-2979708705-1370865285-570841823-501::/bin/sh
> root::1001:513:,S-1-5-21-2979708705-1370865285-570841823-1001::/bin/sh
> sshd::1000:513:,S-1-5-21-2979708705-1370865285-570841823-1000::/bin/sh
> 
> Any idea what I could be doing wrong?  This is the first cygwin program I have tried to get running, so maybe I need to do something in the initial setup.
> 
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