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 Message-ID: <307790-22004103610273860@M2W079.mail2web.com> Reply-To: mike AT fuckingbrit DOT com X-Originating-IP: 80.229.45.113 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "mike AT fuckingbrit DOT com" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: SSH + CVS But no login. Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 06:27:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2004 10:27:04.0449 (UTC) FILETIME=[061D8F10:01C4AB8F] X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i96ARHgP007693 >Urgh! SYSTEM is the account sshd is running under. Don't remove that. Various Guest/System accounts that weren't the SYSTEM account, I removed IUSR_MOTHER and IWAM_MOTHER, the ASP.NET user etc. >I'm wondering why you *first* removed entries from passwd and *then* >asked if that's right instead of vice versa (which would be the natural >order if one don't know, wouldn't it?) I have a vague memory of having done this previously in an older cygwin instance on another box. I did of course back up my passwd file first, as always, and have managed to log into the box fine as myself. But also: >> Ah, yeah. Um. I have a nasty head cold and was in a rush. I don't feel too bright at the moment. Under cygwin, I understood that the passwd file essentialy maps windows users to cygwin settings. username:unused:uid:grpid:windows account:home:shell Without an entry in the cygwin passwd file a user with a valid windows login can not authenticate into cygwin. Was this wrong? Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- 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/