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, 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 In-Reply-To: <20040908084439.GA20537@cygbert.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20040910031012.739C984CB2@pessard.research.canon.com.au> 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 -- 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/