From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems with ssh-host-config on Windows 10
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170202130806.GC4310@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOTD34YFY-79CN8vfrJxLQHk=2SQOa_AQyzsqOG7Wxy0=F9LWw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 2 12:19, Erik Bray wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to get a Cygwin sshd server running on a Windows 10
> VM, and have found it to be surprisingly tricky without some
> additional fiddling, and it's not clear to me whether that's expected
> or if it's a bug. I've attached the cygcheck output from the VM.
>
> The symptom I've having seems to be the same as in this post:
>
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-06/msg00265.html
>
> The problem seems to be stemming from some assumptions in:
> /usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh
>
> It creates the "privileged user" (in my case with the default name
> cyg_server) with `net user`, including the SAM comment entry:
>
> /comment:'<cygwin home="/var/empty" shell="/bin/false"/>'
>
> Shortly after it calls:
>
> passwd -e "${csih_PRIVILEGED_USERNAME}"
>
> and this fails with:
>
> Warning: Setting password expiry for user 'desktop-mk2koav+cyg_server' failed!
>
> This happens because this is a fresh Cygwin install with all the
> default settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. In particular, no passwd
> entry is found for the cyg_server user unless I explicitly add "local"
> to db_enum. Furthermore, the SAM comment entry is not read correctly
> without db_home: desc and db_shell: desc. In summary, I had to edit
> /etc/nsswitch.conf to:
>
> passwd db
> db_enum: local
> db_home: desc
> db_shell: desc
The assumption in ssh-host-config is that your nsswitch.conf settings
are already correct. It's kind of tricky to set up accounts and stuff
in a not yet configured environment.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-02 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-02 11:20 Erik Bray
2017-02-02 13:08 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2017-02-06 9:51 ` Erik Bray
2017-02-12 11:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
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