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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:10:12 +1000 (EST)
From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject: Re: ssh-host-config bug?
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On  8 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>  That's the problem.  I don't know how it disappeared from your /etc/passwd, 
>  but `mkpasswd -l' always creates an entry for the user system.  Just readd 
>  it. 

Thanks, again Corinna.

After the mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l, and a bit of poking about, I
found the reason I couldn't slogin to the PC: /etc/ssh* and /var/empty
were owned by me instead of by system.

luke


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