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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:44:00 +0900
Subject: Re: groups and permissions...
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To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
From: melchior <entropy AT iamagloworm DOT com>
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thankyou! i thought it was something simple.

performance isn't great though... 15kB/s isn't enough for simple ssh?


On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:23:46PM +0900, melchior wrote:
>> Hi there guys...
>>
>> i'm cross posting, and i'm sorry to those of you who also subscribe to
>> ssh-l. just hoping someone here might be able to lend a hand. thanks.
>>
>> 			so, i want to run ssh under cygwin on a win xp
>> 			computer. but i am  having problems... specifically with groups, 
>> at least
>> that's what i  think. You can see that the cygwin is having a problem 
>> with
>> the group  system:system.... and also below are the results of things 
>> that
>> might  be beneficial. I'm not sure how things are supposed to look in
>> /etc/passwd and /etc/group so any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> thanks.
>>
>> [Melchior AT magi]~:{40}:$ ssh entropy AT localhost
>> entropy AT localhost's password:
>> Last login: Sun Mar 23 22:23:41 2003 from localhost
>> setgid: Invalid argument
>> Connection to localhost closed.
>>
>> ---------------
>>
>> [Melchior AT magi]~:{65}:$ ssh-host-config -y
>> chown: `system.system': invalid group
>> Generating /etc/ssh_config file
>> Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
>> However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
>> For more info on privilege separation read
>> /usr/doc/openssh/README.privsep.
>>
>>
>> [Melchior AT magi]~:{58}:$ groups
>> mkgroup
>
> This indicates that you should run mkgroup to create /etc/group:
>   mkgroup -l > /etc/group
>
> Pierre
>
>
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