From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31781 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2001 19:38:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31696 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2001 19:36:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shawcable.net) (24.83.101.198) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2001 19:36:54 -0000 Received: by shawcable.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3010E1C981; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:36:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 11:52:00 -0000 From: "Ryan T. Sammartino" To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: login and ssh: can't authenticate Message-ID: <20011209193653.GA30527@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Ryan T. Sammartino" , Cygwin List References: <20011207234631.GA1429@localhost> <20011208121058.V740@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011208121058.V740@cygbert.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: http://members.shaw.ca/ryants X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00504.txt.bz2 On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:10:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:46:31PM -0800, Ryan T. Sammartino wrote: > > > > As you can see, sshd is running, and it does accept connections: > > > > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > > 1392 1 1392 1392 ? 18 15:07:57 /usr/sbin/sshd > > > > > > Here is my entry in /etc/passwds, somewhat censored: > > > > ryans:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:18:10513:Ryan T. > > Sammartino,U-*******\ryans,S-1-5-21-*******:/home/ryans:/bin/bash > > > > > > Now, my UID is 18 so that I could get cron working > > UID 18 is reserved for SYSTEM. You can't get user authentication > working for your account just by giving yourself uid 18. Run sshd > as service under LocalSystem account. Revert your /etc/passwd to > use UID 18 for SYSTEM. cron needs the same setting, btw. This is probably my ignorance of NT/W2K security coming through, but when I run things as "LocalSystem", I can't kill them either with "kill" (I get "Not owner") or with W2K's Task List ("Access Denied"). How do I kill processes that I've started that got "promoted" to LocalSystem? -- Ryan T. Sammartino (ryants@shaw.ca) http://members.shaw.ca/ryants/ Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/