Re: ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.

Re: ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.

[Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin]

On 2018-05-22 20:21:50 Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote:
>On 2018-05-22 09:24, Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin wrote:
>> On Tue, 5/22/18, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/21/2018 11:53 PM, Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin wrote:
>>>> Trying to configure ssh.
>>>> Followed guides found on the internet (pretty much all the same).
>>>> The problem comes when the script tries to create the user:
>>>> *** Query: Create new privileged user account 'HOST\cyg_server' (Cygwin name 'host cyg_server')? (yes/no) yes
>>>> *** Info: Please enter a password for new user host+cyg_server. Please be sure
>>>> *** Info: that this password matches the password rules given on your system.
>>>> *** Info: Entering no password will exit the configuration.
>>>> *** Query: Please enter the password:
>>>> *** Query: Reenter:
>>>> *** Info: User 'host+cyg_server' has been created with password 'password'.
>>>> *** Info: If you change the password, please remember also to change the
>>>> *** Info: password for the installed services which use (or will soon use)
>>>> *** Info: the 'host+cyg_server' account.
>>>> passwd: unknown user host+cyg_server
>>>> *** Warning: Setting password expiry for user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
>>>> *** Warning: Please check that password never expires or set it ot your needs.
>>>> No user or group 'host+cyg_server known.
>>>> *** Warning: Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
>>>> *** ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.
>>>> *** Query: Do you want ot proceed anyway? (yes/no)
>>> It seems you miss the needed permission.
>>> Has your user admin privilege on the 'host' ?
>>> what system is ?
>> Yes, I ran the cygwin shell as administrator, and I
>> noticed (since it was the first time I had done that)
>> all of the files created in the home directory.
>> The system is Windows 7, 64-bit.
>
> Try setting up the cygserver service and creating the account with
> /bin/cygserver-config before setting up sshd with /bin/ssh-host-config.
>
> If you're going to run Cygwin services, multiple sessions, or many processes,
> especially in a domain, cygserver reduces the overhead.
>
> If you still have problems, run cygcheck -hrsv and attach the output to a reply post.

That didn't work... the first time, but when I retried it, it did.
And strangely enough (I had to reinstall Windows and cygwin), the
exact same behavior occurred after the reinstallation (after running
cygserver-config, ssh-host-config failed the first time, and worked
the second time.

Thank you very much.

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Re: ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.

[Brian Inglis]

On 2018-05-22 09:24, Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 5/22/18, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/21/2018 11:53 PM, Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin wrote:
>>> Trying to configure ssh.
>>> Followed guides found on the internet (pretty much all the same).
>>> The problem comes when the script tries to create the user:
>>> *** Query: Create new privileged user account 'HOST\cyg_server' (Cygwin name 'host cyg_server')? (yes/no) yes
>>> *** Info: Please enter a password for new user host+cyg_server. Please be sure
>>> *** Info: that this password matches the password rules given on your system.
>>> *** Info: Entering no password will exit the configuration.
>>> *** Query: Please enter the password:
>>> *** Query: Reenter:
>>> *** Info: User 'host+cyg_server' has been created with password 'password'.
>>> *** Info: If you change the password, please remember also to change the
>>> *** Info: password for the installed services which use (or will soon use)
>>> *** Info: the 'host+cyg_server' account.
>>> passwd: unknown user host+cyg_server
>>> *** Warning: Setting password expiry for user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
>>> *** Warning: Please check that password never expires or set it ot your needs.
>>> No user or group 'host+cyg_server known.
>>> *** Warning: Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
>>> *** ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.
>>> *** Query: Do you want ot proceed anyway? (yes/no)
>> It seems you miss the needed permission.
>> Has your user admin privilege on the 'host' ?
>> what system is ?
> Yes, I ran the cygwin shell as administrator, and I
> noticed (since it was the first time I had done that)
> all of the files created in the home directory.
> The system is Windows 7, 64-bit.

Try setting up the cygserver service and creating the account with
/bin/cygserver-config before setting up sshd with /bin/ssh-host-config.

If you're going to run Cygwin services, multiple sessions, or many processes,
especially in a domain, cygserver reduces the overhead.

If you still have problems, run cygcheck -hrsv and attach the output to a reply
post.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Re: ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.

[Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin]

On Tue, 5/22/18, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/21/2018 11:53 PM, Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin wrote:
> > Trying to configure ssh.
> > 
> > Followed guides found on the internet (pretty much all the same).
> > 
> > The problem comes when the script tries to create the user:
> > 
> > 
> > *** Query: Create new privileged user account 'HOST\cyg_server' (Cygwin name 'host cyg_server')? (yes/no) yes
> > *** Info: Please enter a password for new user host+cyg_server. Please be sure
> > *** Info: that this password matches the password rules given on your system.
> > *** Info: Entering no password will exit the configuration.
> > *** Query: Please enter the password:
> > *** Query: Reenter:
> >
> > *** Info: User 'host+cyg_server' has been created with password 'password'.
> > *** Info: If you change the password, please remember also to change the
> > *** Info: password for the installed services which use (or will soon use)
> > *** Info: the 'host+cyg_server' account.
> > 
> > passwd: unknown user host+cyg_server
> > *** Warning: Setting password expiry for user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
> > *** Warning: Please check that password never expires or set it ot your needs.
> > No user or group 'host+cyg_server known.
> > *** Warning: Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
> > *** ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.
> > *** Query: Do you want ot proceed anyway? (yes/no)
 
> It seems you miss the needed permission.
> Has your user admin privilege on the 'host' ?
> what system is ?
 
Hi. Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I ran the cygwin shell as administrator, and I
noticed (since it was the first time I had done that)
all of the files created in the home directory.

The system is Windows 7, 64-bit.

Nuzhna

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Re: ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.

[Marco Atzeri]

On 5/21/2018 11:53 PM, Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin wrote:
> Trying to configure ssh.
> 
> Followed guides found on the internet (pretty much all the same).
> 
> The problem comes when the script tries to create the user:
> 
> 
> *** Query: Create new privileged user account 'HOST\cyg_server' (Cygwin name 'host+cyg_server')? (yes/no) yes
> *** Info: Please enter a password for new user host+cyg_server. Please be sure
> *** Info: that this password matches the password rules given on your system.
> *** Info: Entering no password will exit the configuration.
> *** Query: Please enter the password:
> *** Query: Reenter:
> 
> *** Info: User 'host+cyg_server' has been created with password 'password'.
> *** Info: If you change the password, please remember also to change the
> *** Info: password for the installed services which use (or will soon use)
> *** Info: the 'host+cyg_server' account.
> 
> passwd: unknown user host+cyg_server
> *** Warning: Setting password expiry for user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
> *** Warning: Please check that password never expires or set it ot your needs.
> No user or group 'host+cyg_server known.
> *** Warning: Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
> *** ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.
> *** Query: Do you want ot proceed anyway? (yes/no)
> 

It seems you miss the needed permission.
Has your user admin privilege on the 'host' ?
what system is ?

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Regards
Marco

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ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.

[Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin]

Trying to configure ssh.

Followed guides found on the internet (pretty much all the same).

The problem comes when the script tries to create the user:


*** Query: Create new privileged user account 'HOST\cyg_server' (Cygwin name 'host+cyg_server')? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Please enter a password for new user host+cyg_server. Please be sure
*** Info: that this password matches the password rules given on your system.
*** Info: Entering no password will exit the configuration.
*** Query: Please enter the password:
*** Query: Reenter:

*** Info: User 'host+cyg_server' has been created with password 'password'.
*** Info: If you change the password, please remember also to change the
*** Info: password for the installed services which use (or will soon use)
*** Info: the 'host+cyg_server' account.

passwd: unknown user host+cyg_server
*** Warning: Setting password expiry for user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
*** Warning: Please check that password never expires or set it ot your needs.
No user or group 'host+cyg_server known.
*** Warning: Assigning the appropriate privileges to user 'host+cyg_server' failed!
*** ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user.
*** Query: Do you want ot proceed anyway? (yes/no)


If I say no, then of course, the script stops. If I say yes:


*** Warning: Expected privileged user 'host+cyg_server' does not exist.
*** Warning: Defaulting to 'SYSTEM'

*** Info: The sshd service has been installed under the LocalSystem
*** Info: account (also known as SYSTEM). To start the service now, call
*** Info: `net start sshd' or `cygrunserv -S sshd'. Otherwise, it
*** Info: will start automatically after the next reboot.

*** Warning: Host configuration exited with 1 errors or warnings!
*** Warning: Make sure that all problems reported are fixed,
*** Warning: then re-run ssh-host-config.



Tried to search for this in the mailing list archives, and
have found similar problems (but no solutions):

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00233.html

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-04/msg00212.html

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-01/msg00016.html

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-03/msg00586.html

Any idea what is going on?

Thanks.

Nuzhna

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