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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:55:20 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SSHD homedir problems / Win2k
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Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> 
> I'll check tommorow.
> Is this an installer issue then?
> 
> On my Win2k machine, I don't run under 'Administrator', but with a
> different user, which is IN the group 'Administrators'.
> 
> On my NT4 machine, I did install cygwin under the administrator user.
> That is (apart from the obvious os-version) about all I can figure to be
> different.

The difference is that your account has a home directory in the NT
user database, on the other system not.

A fix for mkpasswd to generate a home directory in /etc/passwd
even if it's not mentioned in the NT user database is in the loop.
See the thread

"[patch] default homedir (was: Re: Problem with ssh-keygen.exe."

in this mailing list.

Corinna

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