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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:47:03 -0700
From: Myk Melez <myk AT aol DOT net>
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Subject: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation
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I have two machines with what look like identical cygwin installations 
on them, but the Administrator account on one of them doesn't have 
super-user privileges.  This causes sshd not to have access to 
/home/some-user/.ssh (which is restricted to only "some-user") and thus 
prevents key-based authentication.  Regular password-based 
authentication works, so the problem isn't sshd itself.  Logging in as 
the Administrator and doing "ls /home/some-user/.ssh/*" gives me a 
"permission denied" error, which also confirms that the problem is with 
the permissions of the Administrator account and not sshd.

The Administrator NT accounts (and Administrators NT groups) seem 
identical on the two machines, as are permissions for the C:\cygwin 
directory.  Both systems had old cygwin installations on them that we 
blew away before installing the latest.  What am I missing?

-myk



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