From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17812 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2006 18:09:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 17797 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2006 18:09:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from Unknown (HELO iron.cxi) (209.237.52.18) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:09:21 +0000 Received: from [192.168.111.209] ([192.168.111.209]) (authenticated bits=0) by iron.cxi (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3KI9IXD029339 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:09:19 -0700 Message-ID: <4447CE4D.7070204@elementcxi.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:49:00 -0000 From: Steve Kelem User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: sshd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00529.txt.bz2 The instructions for sshd (/usr/share/doc/openssh/README.privsep) include the following: You should do something like the following to prepare the privsep preauth environment: # mkdir /var/empty # chown root:sys /var/empty # chmod 755 /var/empty # groupadd sshd # useradd -g sshd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty -s /bin/false sshd I used XP's Manage/User Accounts to add a group called sshd. When I tried to create a user "sshd", it complained, saying that the group already exists. 1. Which package has "useradd" and "groupadd"? 2. Is it possible to create sshd:sshd? Thanks, Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/