X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:21:11 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: "/bin/bash: permission denied" on WinXP 2003 x64 solved (privilege   problem)
Message-ID: <20070813122111.GV8535@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <f9p9if$rqb$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <20070813112930 DOT GB17084 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <f9pgn4$kla$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <f9pgn4$kla$1@sea.gmane.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Aug 13 04:53, Brian Kasper wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> As it turns out, all my problems were caused by the fact that the
> >> sshd_server user being created by the ssh-host-config script was not
> >> being given all the required privileges.
> > 
> > This is weird.  The ssh-host-config script usually makes sure that
> > the sshd_server user got all required privileges.  See the script
> > at line 517ff.
> 
> I'm not at work right now, and unfortunately I can't access the gmane
> news server from  work, but I'll check out the script.  I agree it's
> weird; perhaps it's due to either the 64-bitness of the OS, or the fact
> that the OS is (as far as I know) based on the server version of Windows
> XP ....

I just re-read your OP.  There's a misunderstanding here.  Windows XP is
NT kernel version 5.1.  Windows 2003 Server (*not* XP 2003 Server) is
NT kernel version 5.2.  Windows 2003 Server is a newer OS than XP, and
has a newer kernel, with different features and behaviour than the
XP kernel.

Windows 2003 Server x64, as well as the client OS XP x64 are both based
on the 5.2 kernel.  Thus, XP x64 is more similar to 2003 Server than to
it's 32 bit XP counterpart.

The user privilege handling of the 5.2 kernel differs in two points
from the handling in XP.  None of these differences should account for
what you observed.  Just FYI, I set up ssh servers on 2003 32 and 64
bit, as well as on XP 32 and 64 using ssh-host-config without any
problems.  There muyst have been some satrange side-effect on your
machine.

If you're willing to experiment, I'd suggest to remove the sshd-service,
as well as the sshd and sshd_server user accounts entirely.  Also remove
/etc/ssh* and /var/empty.  Then start ssh-host-config again and see what
happens.  Afterwards you can check with editrights again if everything's
correctly set up.  If not, and if the script didn't bail out with

  Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'sshd_server' failed!
  Can't create sshd service!

there's a bug in the script.  Otherwise, if you got the above error
message, it might be interesting to learn why this happens.  OTOH, if
the scipt runs fine this time, well, *shrug*.

> If I get the chance, I'll delete the sshd_server user from that system
> and re-run the ssh-host-config script to see what privileges it assigns
> to sshd_server.

Oh, hmm, I wrote the above before reading further in your mail... :)


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
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/