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, 1 Aug 2003 18:53:23 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation Message-ID: <20030801155323.GC214799@niksula.cs.hut.fi> References: <3F299C67 DOT 1070700 AT aol DOT net> <3F29C4F1 DOT 8010805 AT cygwin DOT com> <02e101c357e0$82350730$6902a8c0 AT markonius> <3F2A868F DOT 3050301 AT cygwin DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F2A868F.3050301@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i I think I have somewhat similar problem with setting up sshd. It must be something stupid, but this has happened to me on two separate machines. As it happens, someone else had initially set up cygwin on both of them, so I don't know exactly what options were used (but I assume they are fairly default). Another is NT4/SP6, the other is W2k/SP3, both use NTFS. The problem: After I installed sshd with setup.exe, and run ssh-host-config, I was unable to get the service running as SYSTEM user. From event log, I found this: User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM sshd : PID 528 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 255, error 255. /etc/ssh* was owned by SYSTEM, but if I changed all that to owned by user, I was able to run "sshd -d -D" from command line as user. Also If I changed the service to be executed as user, it started up just fine. I already used a fair amount of time trying to work out what might have been the cause (and I'm somewhat satisfied with sshd service running as user) so I'm taking the lazy attitude and asking here whether someone here has seen something like this or able to tell off-hand whgat might be the culprit... -- v -- v AT iki DOT fi cygcheck output (some information censored): Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Aug 01 18:52:13 2003 Windows NT Ver 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 6 Path: C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\sbin C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin c:\WINNT40\SYSTEM32 c:\WINNT40 C:\cygwin\ntreskit . C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec) UID: 1003() GID: 513(None) 513(None) 544(Administrators) C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec) UID: 1003() GID: 513(None) 513(None) 544(Administrators) SysDir: C:\WINNT40\System32 WinDir: C:\WINNT40 CYGWIN = `ntea' HOME = `c:\users\default' PWD = `/home/' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = `/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x00000020 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\00 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\01 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\02 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\03 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\04 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\05 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\06 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\07 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\08 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\09 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0A HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0B HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0C HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0D HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0E HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0F HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\10 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\11 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\12 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\13 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\14 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\15 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\16 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\17 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\18 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\19 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1A HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1B HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1C HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1D HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = `/' cygdrive flags = 0x0000002a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = `C:\cygwin' flags = 0x00000008 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = `C:\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x00000008 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = `C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x00000008 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\00 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\01 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\02 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\03 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\04 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\05 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\06 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\07 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\08 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\09 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0A HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0B HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0C HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0D HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0E HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0F HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\10 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\11 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\12 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\13 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\14 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\15 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\16 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\17 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\18 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\19 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1A HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1B HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1C HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1D a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 8001Mb 88% CP CS UN PA FC NOSPART d: hd NTFS 17359Mb 74% CP CS UN PA FC LIMPPU2 e: hd NTFS 8675Mb 21% CP CS UN PA barracuda f: cd N/A N/A . /cygdrive user textmode,cygdrive C:\cygwin / system textmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system textmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system textmode . / system binmode,cygdrive Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Not Found: cpp (good!) Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Not Found: gcc Not Found: gdb Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Not Found: ld Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Not Found: make Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe 58k 2002/05/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll 848k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll 645k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll 380k 2002/07/24 C:\cygwin\bin\cygdb-3.1.dll 487k 2002/07/24 C:\cygwin\bin\cygdb_cxx-3.1.dll 45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll 35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll 76k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform7.dll 28k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-3.dll 30k 2003/07/26 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-4.dll 19k 2003/03/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll 15k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-3.dll 15k 2003/07/26 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-4.dll 17k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll 20k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll 945k 2003/06/18 C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll 22k 2001/12/13 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll 28k 2002/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll 26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll 20k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll 48k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu7.dll 156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll 175k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll 226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll 202k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll 284k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll 15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll 12k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll 31k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel7.dll 63k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll 61k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll 1069k 2003/06/02 C:\cygwin\bin\cygperl5_8_0.dll 22k 2002/06/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll 108k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll 127k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll 176k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl-0.9.7.dll 165k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll 50k 2002/03/12 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll 948k 2003/03/18 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.22 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 78 Shared data: 3 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Tue Mar 18 09:20:11 EST 2003 CVS tag: dontuse-21 Shared id: cygwin1S3 Cygwin Package Information Package Version _update-info-dir 00190-1 ash 20020731-1 base-files 1.3-1 base-passwd 1.1-1 bash 2.05b-9 bzip2 1.0.2-2 cygrunsrv 0.96-1 cygutils 1.1.4-2 cygwin 1.3.22-1 diffutils 2.8.1-1 fileutils 4.1-1 findutils 4.1.7-4 gawk 3.1.3-1 gdbm 1.8.3-3 grep 2.5-1 gzip 1.3.3-4 inetutils 1.3.2-23 less 378-1 libbz2_1 1.0.2-2 libdb3.1 3.1.17-2 libgdbm 1.8.0-5 libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-3 libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 libgdbm4 1.8.3-5 libiconv2 1.8-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libintl2 0.11.5-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libncurses7 5.3-1 libpcre 4.1-1 libpopt0 1.6.4-4 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.3-2 links 0.96-1 login 1.9-5 nano 1.2.0-1 ncurses 5.3-1 openssh 3.6.1p1-2 openssl 0.9.7b-1 openssl096 0.9.6j-1 perl 5.8.0-3 procps 010801-2 psutils 1.17-1 readline 4.3-2 rsync 2.5.6-1 rxvt 2.7.10-3 sed 4.0.7-1 sh-utils 2.0.15-3 shutdown 1.3-1 tar 1.13.25-1 termcap 20021106-2 terminfo 5.3-3 texinfo 4.2-4 textutils 2.0.21-1 wget 1.8.2-2 which 1.5-1 zip 2.3-2 zlib 1.1.4-1 zsh 4.0.6-5 Use -h to see help about each section -- 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/