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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:18:36 -0400
From: "Mister Fred Ma" <mister DOT fred DOT ma AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Warning to use mkpasswd
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Larry Hall wrote:
>Mister Fred Ma wrote:
>> Using an administrator account, I installed cygwin & sshd for all
>> users on Windows XP.  The administrator account is local to the
>> machine, while my nonadministrator account is a domain power user
>> account.  When I launch a cygwin bash shell as administrator, things
>> are fine.  When I launch it as nonadministrator, I get the message
>>
>>   Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that
>>   the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
>>   See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
>>   mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
>>   mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
>>   Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
>>
>> Here is what I did to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
>>
>> As administrator, I did
>>
>>   mkpasswd -l >| /etc/passwd
>>   mkgroup -l >| /etc/group
>>
>> As nonadministrator, I then did
>>
>>   mkpasswd -d | ssh AdminAccount AT localhost "cat >> /etc/passwd"
>>   mkgroup -d | ssh AdminAccount AT localhost "cat >> /etc/group"
>>
>> As an indication of proper functionality, I noted that I can
>> successfully log in using
>>
>>   ssh AdminAccount AT localhost
>>   ssh nonAdminAccount AT localhost
>>
>> Is there anything further I can do to avoid the warning message
>> at the start of this posting?  As a possible clue, I noticed that
>> when I log onto Windows as nonAdministrator and start cygwin bash,
>> my home diretory ~ is
>>
>>   /c/Documents and Settings/NonAdminAccount
>>
>> Here, c:\ is mounted as /c.  When I ssh into
>> nonAdminAccount AT localhost, however, ~ becomes /home/NonAdminAccount,
>> which is c:\cygwin\home\NonAdminAccount.
>
>
>'ssh' uses the information in your '/etc/passwd' file to determine your
>home directory.  You can use the '-h' flag to mkpasswd to set this as
>you desire, if the default is not what you want.
>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     cygcheck -cvs output, as queried from NonAdminAccount
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Please don't append this information,

Apologies -- I did this because it was requested in the past.
Common practice and expectations might have changed since.

Thanks for the tip on setting the ssh login directory.

Fred

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