From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62605 invoked by alias); 21 May 2018 21:53:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 62588 invoked by uid 89); 21 May 2018 21:53:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*x:YahooMailBasic, H*UA:YahooMailBasic, privileged, ssh X-HELO: sonic301-4.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com Received: from sonic301-4.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com (HELO sonic301-4.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com) (74.6.129.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 May 2018 21:53:19 +0000 Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic301.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2018 21:53:17 +0000 Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 22:56:00 -0000 From: "Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin" Reply-To: Nuzhna Pomoshch Reply-To: Nuzhna Pomoshch To: Message-ID: <1496898027.3835973.1526939595770@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1496898027.3835973.1526939595770.ref@mail.yahoo.com> X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00248.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple