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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:14:55 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: sshd login problems
Message-ID: <20041103031454.GA553095@hpn5170>
References: <41881027 DOT 9060407 AT aass DOT oru DOT se>
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:54:31PM +0100, Martin Magnusson wrote:
> I'm having trouble setting up correct user and group permissions for 
> logging on to a computer using ssh. I have installed sshd and cygrunsrv, 
> and I believe that the server itself is running properly. I start it 
> with "cygrunsrv -S sshd". However, when trying to logon from a remote 
> (Linux) computer, I get:
> 
> ~ ssh -l remote-user xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> remote-user AT xxx DOT xxx DOT xxx DOT xxx's password:
> Last login: Tue Nov  2 10:35:21 2004 from yyy
> setgid: Invalid argument
> Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed.
> 
> I use Windows XP on the host machine, and I have created a new user 
> account, with a password, for this purpose. I'm guessing that the error 
> lies somewhere in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
> The line corresponding to the remote user in /etc/passwd looks like this:
> remote-user:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1008:513:remote-user,U-LATERALUS\remote-user,S-1-5-21-1547161642-343818398-725345543-1008:/home/martin:/bin/bash
> (I hope there's no risk posting the contents of the passwd file here...)
> 
> My /etc/group looks like this:
> root:S-1-5-32-544:0:
> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
> 
> What can I do?

Add 513 to /etc/group
"mkgroup -l > /etc/group" should do that. In fact it should have done it together
with the two entries you have, 0 and 18. Weird.

Pierre

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