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Subject: Re: proftpd as a service under 2003
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Ren=E9 Berber wrote:
> Chris Stromsoe wrote:
>>
>>> How did you setup proftpd as service?
>>
>> cygrunsrv --install proftpd --path /usr/sbin/proftpd.exe --args=20
>> "nodaemon" --type auto --disp "Cygwin proftpd" --desc "ProFTP FTP=20
>> daemon" --user sshd_server -e CYGWIN=3D"ntsec"
>
> Is that a typo? the option nodaemon is written as --nodaemon or -n.

it's a typo.  It's "--nodaemon".

>> "cygrunsrv --start proftpd" after that fails.
>>
> ...
>> If I run without specifying --user, proftpd runs as SYSTEM.  It does not
>> change users at all.  If I log in with other users and upload files, the
>> files all end up owned by the SYSTEM user.
>
> I know all about that, but you can see your result, the error message=20
> you posted clearly states that the user could not change to SYSTEM...=20
> again: did you configyro proftpd correctly?

It's the default configuration.

Which, it turns out is the problem.  Thanks for the hint.  Apparently, the=
=20
created user (sshd_server) can't switch to SYSTEM at startup, but has no=20
problems switching to other users after proftpd is already running.  So=20
/etc/proftpd.conf needs to specify the same user that you give to=20
cygrunsrv, or it won't start the service.


-Chris

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