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 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20021010090052.02613490@pop.rcn.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT rcn DOT com Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:04:29 -0400 To: "Gerrit P. Haase" , "elfyn mcbratney" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: proposed CYGWIN-SSHD.HOWTO doc Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <1771481939967.20021010145251@familiehaase.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:52 AM 10/10/2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >elfyn schrieb: > > > I have taken a little while this morning to write a doc on how to setup sshd > > as a service under windows nt/2000/xp to help people new to cygwin or people > > experiencing problems. Really want others input and experience in setting it > > up. Maybe be added to the OpenSSH dist. Corinna??? > >This paragraph: > > Your CYGWIN environment variable needs to be set to 'tty' at least and > > if you want chmon/and or chown functionality 'ntsec ntea tty'. The nt* > > options should only be used on NT systems with NTFS partitions housing > > CYGWIN. warning: using the nt* options on 9x/Me systems can create large > > un-removable files on your system... CYGWIN=ntsec ntea tty > >Running SSHD as a service under SYSTEM account only works iff you're using >CYGWIN=ntsec, not because of ch... functionality but because of switching >the user context to the remote user who is logging into the server. Right. I haven't had a chance to read through this document yet but I would bring up another issue with the above quoted paragraph. The "ntea" and "ntsec" options have no affect on 9x/Me systems. See Why doesn't chmod work? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC44 for the full scope on this. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/