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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:35:34 -0700
From: Myk Melez <myk AT aol DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation
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Larry Hall wrote:

> 1. SYSTEM is the account that sshd runs as, not administrator.

Hmm, perhaps it's just a coincidence then that Administrator permissions 
correspond with sshd permissions.

> 2. Only the owner of the private key files in .ssh should have 
> permissions
>    to access these files.  Public key files should be readable by anyone.
>    You'll want to check the permissions on these files relative to the
>    above.

We got things working by opening up public access to 
/home/some-user/.ssh/authorized_keys, and perhaps that's sufficient, 
although I'm still concerned about the difference in behavior across my 
two installations.  I have limited experience with cygwin (or Windows in 
general), but on Linux in my experience sshd turns up its nose at 
non-private .ssh directories, or else I would have tried that sooner.

$CYGWIN is set to "binmode ntsec tty", so that shouldn't be the problem. 

> 3. Generally, you should read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

I've been through the FAQ and User's Guide but couldn't find an answer 
to my question.  Perhaps I should read both straight through for a more 
rounded understanding of what's going on; I was just hoping someone had 
experienced this before and knew the magic incantation to correct it. :-)

-myk



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