RE: Unable to run sshd under a domain sshd_server account [SOLVED]

["Schutter, Thomas A." <tschutter@proxix.com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 13 11:09, Schutter, Thomas A. wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > On May 12 18:29, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Schutter, Thomas A. wrote:
> > > > Yes -- Windows does not understand user impersonation and does
> not
> > > allow
> > > > real user switching.  So what sshd does is invoke processes with
> the
> > > > appropriate token privileges for the user it's impersonating,
> while
> > > > updating internal Cygwin data structures, but still running as
> > > > sshd_server.  So Cygwin sees the right user (in its internal
> state),
> > > but
> > > > Windows processes, of course, don't.
> > >
> > > That's not correct.  This problem cropped up on the list a lot
> > already.
> > > When not using password authentication, Cygwin has to create a
user
> > > token from scratch.  The resulting processes are running under a
> > normal
> > > user token with correctly set user and group ownership.
> >
> > Except that is not what I am seeing.  When I run "id" from a console
> > cygwin shell:
> >   $ id
> >   uid=18718(tschutter) gid=10513(Domain Users)
> > groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(Domain
> > Users),18169(FDSV-GG-PrxBLD),22611(FDSV-GG-PrxPCAdmins)
> >
> > But when I run "id" from a ssh shell:
> >   $ id
> >   uid=18718(tschutter) gid=10513(Domain Users)
> > groups=545(Users),10513(Domain Users)
> >
> > So when I am using pubkey authentication, the user token is not a
> member
> > of the "Administrators", "FDSV-GG-PrxBLD", or "FDSV-GG-PrxPCAdmins"
> > groups.
> 
> That wasn't what I was talking about.  I was just referring to the
> assertion that Windows doesn't know about user impersonation or
> user switching.
> 
> As for your user token, Cygwin tries to get information about the user
> by asking the local machine what local and global groups the user is
> member in.  Some local groups are only in the user's group list,
> because
> one of the global grouyps is in turn member of a local group, which is
> probably the case for the Admin's group.  For some reason your local
> machine doesn't return any of the information about the global domain
> groups your user is member in.  Possible reasons are that retrieving
> the
> PDC for the user's domain fails, or that the PDC refuses to list the
> user's groups for some reason.  That's something you would have to
> debug
> in your local installation.

Ahh.  From my original email from a console cygwin shell:
  $ echo $USERDOMAIN
  FLOODDATA

But when I login via ssh:
  $ echo $USERDOMAIN
  FDSVBLD01SGRAPE

So when I login via ssh, the USERDOMAIN is set to the local machine
rather than the domain.  So I would suspect that the PDC is not even
being queried.

So to summarize, if sshd is run under the local sshd_server account,
then the USERDOMAIN for a ssh shell is set to the local machine.  But
if sshd is run under a domain account, then the USERDOMAIN for a ssh
shell is set to the domain.  This is then the root cause of most of
my issues.

So why is USERDOMAIN set incorrectly?

--
Tom Schutter
First American - Proxix Solutions
(512) 977-6822

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