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From: Jacob Kitzman <kitz AT mit DOT edu>
Subject: group name problem
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:16:46 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

This cygwin stuff is pretty slick!  I'm hitting one snag, though, as I am trying
to setup sshd for remote access by limited users.

I've made a user "dnr" which is a member of the group "Limited SSHD users" (gid
1006).  After mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l'ing, I've manually set the gid of user
dnr to 1006 in /etc/passwd.  Running as Administrator, id yields the expected
result:

Administrator AT walz-bemaster ~
$ id dnr
uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(Limited SSHD users) groups=1006(Limited SSHD users)

However, when I ssh in to dnr AT localhost, cygwin doesn't seem to be able to find
a group with gid 1006.  (And I get the message upon login that your group is
currently "mkgroup")

dnr AT walz-bemaster ~
$ id dnr
uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(mkgroup) groups=1006(mkgroup)

Is there some local policy I need to set for the group "Limited SSHD users"? 
Any ideas for a workaround?

Thanks a bunch!

Jacob Kitzman


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