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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:26:52 -0400
To: "Cary Lewis" <CLewis AT mobilecom DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: problem with permissions / proftpd
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At 02:46 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote:
>I am trying to set up a ftp server using proftpd
>
>I have installed it and it works fine for a user which is a member of
>the administrators group.
>
>When I create a new user which is only a member of users, it does not
>work.
>
>When I ssh into the machine using the users only user, I get the
>following
>
>Your group is currently "mkgroup".  This indicates that
>the /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt.
>See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
>mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
>Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
>
>But /etc/group contains the correct group Users
>
>If I add the user to the Administrators group I can log in without the
>mkgroup warning, but ftp still does not work. 
>
>As well, the /etc directory appears different depending on who is logged
>in.
>
>The user which installed cygwin and proftpd and sshd, is not the
>Administrator, but a user in the Administrators group.
>
>On a different server where the Administrator did the install I get
>better results. I can log in via ssh, but ftp fails, proftpd can not
>chdir to the /home/user directory.
>
>If I change the /etc/passwd entry for the user to /cygwin/home/user,
>then I can use ftp, but this "trick" does not work on the machine where
>I am user in the Administrator group and not the administrator itself.
>
>Can someone suggest a course of action. 
>
>Clearly the interaction between windoze security and cygwin is tripping
>me up.


I'd suggest starting here:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


To me, it sounds like a "system" versus "user" mount issue but without 
at least the basic configuration information from 'cygcheck', that's just a 
WAG.




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