X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44DFEAE4.8020503@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:15:48 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: configuring logon on ssh in cygwin References: <725278c60608132006u330721f5pf74d449ee4504de0 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <725278c60608132006u330721f5pf74d449ee4504de0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Ujjaval Suthar wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed cygwin first time on my windows server. I need > to setup sshd on my server, so that I can use it for subversion > authentication. > > My server name is say for example: XYZ. > We have another main server where all my users are having their logins > which is say for example: ABC > > So, simply to long on to XYZ server they use ABC as domain and their > username and password for that domain to logon to XYZ server. I need > to use this same mechanism for the Subversion server on my XYZ server. > For this, I want to use sshd to have secure authentication. For that I > installed cygwin to have sshd running on my server. > > somehow, I successfully added domain users by > mkpasswd -d domain -u username >> /etc/passwd > mkgroup -d domain >> /etc/group > > in cygwin. But I'm not sure how can I check this on sshd? > I tried using following command but didn't work: > > $ssh ABC\UserX AT localhost > > above command, asks me for password, but it does not authenticate my > password. > Do I have to copy all my domain users' passwords in cygwin??? Don't use the domain name. You shouldn't need it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/