Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH To: Prentis Brooks Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:19:04 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: "Illegal User" logging into sshd CC: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B66F698.2464.13D9F5F@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) > Prentis Brooks schrieb am 2001-07-31 10:43: > Ok, I finally pinpointed the problem, but I don't like my solution. > > Basically, it appears that sshd is not recognizing any changes to /etc/passwd > since it started. To solve this I had to connect to the host and stop all > instances of sshd then restart clean, not pretty and not viable if I want to > script changes to the passwd files across a farm. Is there another way to > get sshd to review the files, will it accept a kill -HUP and if so, how can > I send the hup, since I can't get the pid from within an ssh session (or is > there a way I haven't found yet?) The problem is, if you're in a session, there are two sshd processes running: Gerrit AT ISMENE ~ $ ssh ismene Enter passphrase for key '/home/Gerrit/.ssh/id_rsa': Last login: Mon Jul 30 09:05:44 2001 from ismene.192.168.5.5 Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! Gerrit AT ISMENE ~ $ ps -e 259 221 259 254 3 11002 16:11:39 /usr/bin/ssh 258 1 116 258 ? 18 16:11:40 /usr/sbin/sshd 146 279 279 137 ? 18 16:13:48 /usr/sbin/sshd BUT, you can see at the time row how long each process is running and so you know what the parent is. If you do '$ cygrunsrv -E sshd' your session will be stopped and you are still logged in at the child sshd. $ cygrunsrv -E sshd $ ps -e | grep ssh 259 221 259 254 3 11002 16:11:39 /usr/bin/ssh 258 1 116 258 ? 18 16:11:40 /usr/sbin/sshd Then you may change whatever is needed and restart the *service* $ cygrunsrv -S sshd $ ps -e | grep ssh 259 221 259 254 3 11002 16:11:39 /usr/bin/ssh 258 1 116 258 ? 18 16:11:40 /usr/sbin/sshd 223 115 115 253 ? 18 16:16:16 /usr/sbin/sshd I hope it works, but i am not in the position to give a guarantee for that:-) gph -- gerrit DOT haase AT convey DOT de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/