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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:15:13 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Daniel Danger Bentley cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login In-Reply-To: <020e01c40222$1a805c60$1d5a0c80@mencken> Message-ID: References: <020e01c40222$1a805c60$1d5a0c80 AT mencken> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Daniel Danger Bentley wrote: > I attempted to create a new account on my machine. I added the user in XP. > Then I did mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd. I started and stopped sshd using net. > Also, I may have inadvertantly used passwd on both the old and new account > to change the passwd. I have since mkpasswd -l'ed and passwd'ed each > account to the password I want. But when I ssh in, I can login to neither > account. Any ideas? Daniel, Do the accounts have valid SIDs? Do they belong to groups that have valid SIDs in your /etc/group file? Is the default shell for each user executable by that user? Is a user's home directory accessible by that user? What does adding a '-vvv' flag to ssh show? > Also, when I just use login to log into the new account, I get permission > denied on /bin/bash. Any ideas there? > > Thanks, > Dan Does make things clearer? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/