From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 70257 invoked by alias); 22 May 2018 06:59:01 -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 70227 invoked by uid 89); 22 May 2018 06:59:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=privilege, services X-HELO: mail-wm0-f45.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f45.google.com) (74.125.82.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 May 2018 06:58:59 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f45.google.com with SMTP id a8-v6so29059947wmg.5 for ; Mon, 21 May 2018 23:58:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=W5AeAPaFM+3ra12+nDNJ+G/izvTcHtJisOQgnz1PCHc=; b=QOkN8AhedNyGFIS+ZNfxB75jgCs8Bi2TJt1wwAtLHITQGnG3lJwlbiQpSFT+J4r3nb FCcff7CdzOGFBTY6BDrmtxqXYZvwfw1cuQESpBcQ8dWQEmoN3IX4WVw7n/HWoqdcQHsl HtDPQBTb764XJoaDOeeTd3Awcon4tOyGzQEE097gFdzXpYAHM9wrviKp/0w54SVfh8H0 5GAWWUFZQXg/WC2GsEcddLhi3268FYVyKZ1db3XoMB4VGcUk/vs57m7itWQ0l8cBnMOB 0RpHZfTy2LwISFAWcUE1mRZ3z/N4xlqP3QKfTgzRF/oEsbKXkssy30CTNNd1OvM9A2fw zlyA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwd19iR6yLy0QgUtYqcl2D+U4UxEuBSbTLAsrrENjl7fvVNcLLVc lKAZ1z0D5wFsMJ+Imlp7XlI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZqkpIpAp37acCMumJv2UuYRoUHqx2i1yln3d1dKQCxt8Cui0Xn64KPUdd+/CjAlInW1s0Sc9A== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:8d90:: with SMTP id p138-v6mr173444wmd.153.1526972336575; Mon, 21 May 2018 23:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.192.161] ([178.15.39.162]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c21-v6sm18715456wre.81.2018.05.21.23.58.55 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 21 May 2018 23:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: ERROR: There was a serious problem creating a privileged user. To: cygwin@cygwin.com, nuzhna_pomoshch@yahoo.com References: <1496898027.3835973.1526939595770.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1496898027.3835973.1526939595770@mail.yahoo.com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <5bde3107-b0e1-b683-ccff-3ce2d587d59f@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 08:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1496898027.3835973.1526939595770@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00253.txt.bz2 On 5/21/2018 11:53 PM, Nuzhna Pomoshch via cygwin wrote: > 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) > It seems you miss the needed permission. Has your user admin privilege on the 'host' ? what system is ? > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Regards Marco -- 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