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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:25:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Ivans Chou <ichou AT photon DOT com>
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Subject: Re: OpenSSH Windows 2003 Server and
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ivans Chou wrote:

> I have installed the latest cygwin with OpenSSH 4.0p1 OpenSSL
> 0.9.7g. I managed to get inetd and sshd installed after bothering to
> read the on-screen instructions.
>
> Here's what I have: after logging into the system, I have a set of
> shell scripts that call the Windows "net use" command to automatically
> mount shared directories and user's UNIX home directories which are
> exported via SAMBA.
>
> rlogind and telnetd work perfectly as inetd services.  When the user
> logs into the system, the shell scripts automatically call "net use"
> to mount the SAMBA shares, and the user has his/her home directory.
>
> After following the instructions correctly with installing the sshd
> service by creating a sshd_server local account and setting the
> correct permissions on the /var/empty and /etc/ssh_*_keys files to be
> owned and readible only by sshd_server, I was able to log in via ssh.
> However, once logged in to my cygwin server via ssh, I am not able to
> use the "net" command.  I get various "password incorrect" or "unknown
> user" type errors.  It looks to me that once sshd logs the user into
> the system the "shell" that is spawned doesn't contain the proper
> environment or user associated with that shell.  As a result, my
> automount scripts do not work.
>
> I've been poking around with permissions and groups and sshd settings,
> but with enough poking, I invariably manage to completely break the
> sshd configuration, and I have to start over.  Can someone point me
> toward the correct sshd_config settings or tell me if this is a
> security feature than cannot be worked-around in ssh?

FAQ: <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC33>, second paragraph.
HTH,
	Igor
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