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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:27:29 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: "Illegal User" when logging into sshd
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0107310953590.26124-100000@magetower.office.aol.com>; from prentis@aol.net on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:58:44AM -0400

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:58:44AM -0400, Prentis Brooks wrote:
> Here is the scenario:
> 
> Running sshd out of cygrunsrv as system.  sshd operating fine, performing
> both password and rsa authentication for any domain admin account that I add
> to /etc/passwd.  I need to allow rsa authentication for a single non-domain
> admin account onto my member servers.  The problem is that regardless of the
> authentication method, sshd reports a failed attempt for "illegal user foo".
> 
> I have tried foo AT host, domain\\foo AT host, and even tried adding the user to the
> local Adminstrators group to see if I had a perm issue.  The domain account
> was added to /etc/passwd in the following manner:
> 
> mkpasswd -d | grep foo >>/etc/passwd
> and the home directory was created and chowned to that user, still no dice.

Did you restart sshd after creating the entry in /etc/passwd?

Under Cygwin processes get a copy of /etc/passwd and /etc/group
in the process memory on the first access to these files for
performance reasons. Later changes to these files aren't recognized
by a running process.

Corinna

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