Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Stephen C. Biggs" To: "Harig, Mark A." , Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 14:53:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: Son of son of SSH & Cygwin; scp and sftp Message-ID: <3D4E915E.12872.2FF04F4@localhost> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 5 Aug 2002 at 16:49, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. How did you create the /etc/passwd entry for this > > > second user? > > > > test::1006:546:U-LOCALHOST\test,S-1-5-21- > > 1743480672-7889942-740312968- > > 1006:/home/test:/bin/bash > > > > My guess is that somehow this entry is incorrect, > probably the 'S-1-5-...' is wrong somehow. > > You might try: > > 1. Save /etc/passwd to /etc/passwd.save > > 2. Delete the entry for 'test'. > > 3. mkpasswd -d | grep test >> /etc/passwd > > 4. Check to see whether the entry for 'test' > is reasonable. Also: > > $ diff /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.save Here is the entry for 'test' done by mkpasswd -l as I have no domain users. test:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:513:U- LOCALHOST\test,S-1-5-21-1743480672- 7889942-740312968-1006:/home/test:/bin/bash The GUID is the same. It puts it into the None group, whereas the only change I made was to make sure that 'test' is in the 'Guests' group. -- 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/