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: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:00:36 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Login & Something diff since cygwin 1.5.15-1 release - could it be security changes that were made Message-ID: <20050607090035.GB23172@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050606104023 DOT GG3268 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jun 6 17:02, Brian Keener wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > There were a couple of security changes in recent releases. What about > > 1.5.17? Does it solve your problem? I just tried using login using > > my own account and it works correctly. You should carefully inspect > > your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files because recent changes are more > > sensitive to wrong entries, especially in relation to group settings. > > > > Corinna > > Thanks for the response. 1.5.17 doesn't correct it either. I have tried each > release since 1.5.14 and and always end up rolling back to 1.5.14. I even > tried simply accessing the bash prompt and then running login from there > (without running it directly from cygwin.bat) and it still says Login > Incorrect . > > Based on your results I will go back and review /etc/passwd and /etc/group as > you suggest and see what I can find. I'm going to have to do a little > digging it looks like - I updated to 1.5.17, removed my passwd and group file > and rebuilt using: > > mkgroup -l >/etc/group mkpasswd -l -p "/$HOME" >/etc/passwd > > still won't login. Then I rebuilt them with > > mkgroup -d >/etc/group mkpasswd -d -p "/$HOME" >/etc/passwd Woops. Are you using domain accounts or local accounts? The group file should match what you have in your passwd file. Do you, by any chance, have different gids used in passwd as in group? > but sill no luck either from cygwin.bat or just login from the shell prompt. > I'll keep digging. Not sure what to look at now though. Dunno what I shall say here. I tried it with an admin account as well as with an unprivileged account and I checked what you described, giving different Cygwin-names to the same account with just different shells in the /etc/passwd file. I didn't make any other changes to /etc/passwd or /etc/group so having an otherwise basic setup, it works fine for me. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/