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 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:40:38 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me Message-ID: <20030627214038.GD1054@ny-kenton2a-710.buf.adelphia.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20030623181331 DOT GA1916 AT tishler DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030623181331.GA1916@tishler.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: somian AT adelphia DOT net (Soren Andersen) On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:13:31PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > s/Tischler/Tishler/ Sorry ;-) > > LocalSystem" user. I don't know what OS Jason is talking about as there > > is no such user "LocalSystem" on WinXP (yet XP is decended from NT). > > The built-in Windows "LocalSystem" account maps to the Cygwin "SYSTEM" > user. > > > So in the /etc/proftpd.conf file I have lines like: > > > > User SYSTEM > > Group Administrators > > The above should be correct. > > > but when I try to run proftpd, it refuses to start because it won't > > change user context. The user I run Cygwin as apparently doesn't have > > sufficient perms to change user context like this. > > Did you install proftpd as a NT service via cygrunsrv as indicated in > the README? Yes. In brief, I did. Followed the instructions to the letter. Then when it didn't work, i wanted to run in in non-detached (undaemon-ized) mode so that I could try to understand where it was failing. Nothing i tried got it to work: neither doing it the "usual" way (starting it as an NT service via cygrunsrv) nor trying to watch it run stand-alone. > http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.9rc1.README > > > I don't know how to add such rights to the account: the user IS (*IS* > > *IS* *IS*) an "Administrator" on the local system (was created that > > way). > > See my next post. > > > Can anyone loan me a clue about what can be done to fix this, i.e. give > > my user account sufficient perms to run proftpd as "SYSTEM"? > > You should be able to run proftpd under SYSTEM on XP Home. However, I > do not have access to XP Home so I cannot verify this hypothesis. > > BTW, can you run other daemons such as inetd or sshd on this box? Not sure, I haven't tried yet. Thanks Soren A. -- See my OpenPGP key at https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=6050 GnuPG public key fingerprint | "Only when efforts to reform society have as BD26 A5D8 D781 C96B 9936 | their point of departure the reformation of 310F 0573 A3D9 4E24 4EA6 | the inner life -- human revolution -- will they lead us with certainty to a world of lasting peace and true human security." -- Daisaku Ikeda -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/