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Dan Miller wrote:

> Ok....Rene you are the woman! Thank you so much.

Er ... actually Ren=E9 is a male name, Renee is the female equivalent (I kn=
ow,
there is Rene Russo and others that have the wrong name, but what do they k=
now,
the name comes from France).

> I was sort of blowing
> off the event log because it appeared that windows couldn't determine
> what the problem was...but at the very end it said user dan not allowed
> because shell /bin/bash is not executable. so I chmod 700 /bin/bash.exe
> and I'm in!! It worked It actually worked!! :-) Any idea why this was
> set up this way...doesn't seem to be a problem I've come across in other
> peoples efforts to get this going.

No, I've never seen this, very strange.  I have 750 for bash's permissions
(-rwxr-x---), your other user may have problems if both login at the same t=
ime.

>     Anyway, so now I can ssh into the computer as user dan which has a
> local login etc. I want to add another user that has a user account on
> the computer but is not allowed to login interactively to windows. Can
> you tell me how to do that?

The user needs a password... and he might not have a home directory (on fir=
st
login it is created by the shell).

> I can't seem to su within cygwin to rerun
> ssh-user-config. How do I set up another user in cygwin and then switch
> to that user and run the ssh-user-config script? I made a folder in the
> home directory for the new user, but it doesn't have the standard bash
> files. Thanks again!

The new user doesn't need to run ssh-user-config, that only creates the def=
ault
~/.ssh directory with some defaults, and the keys which are only necessary =
for
public key authentication.  You can login as the second user as it is now, =
just
make sure the home is the correct one, then he can run the script.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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