From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9524 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2008 01:06:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 9437 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Nov 2008 01:06:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from maeder.org (HELO maeder.org) (192.220.73.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:05:48 +0000 Received: (qmail 7268 invoked by uid 18834); 20 Nov 2008 01:05:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maeder.org) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 127.0.0.1 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Nov 2008 01:05:44 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Herb Maeder In-reply-to: Corinna Vinschen 's message of Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:35:43 +0100. Subject: Re: sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: <7265.1227143144@maeder.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00340.txt.bz2 On 13 Nov 2008 11:35:43 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Looking ahead, I suspect that this combo (sshd + 1.7 + vista + domain user) > > will be pretty common. Is there a plan for steering users in the right > > direction during the setup of sshd, or maybe giving a more descriptive > > error message? > > The ssh-host-config script only covers the simpler approaches for home > users. Right now, a professional administrator for a Windows domain > will have to know a bit, or ask here. > > Ideally, somebody would take a heart and > > - Add more code to ssh-host-config to allow more smooth operations > in a domain environment. > - Add to the documentation to explain the problems. > > But right now that won't be me. Understood. Thanks for providing the game plan in any case. As for me, I've unfortunately just lost all access to my domain account and vista test machines. So, although I would like help, I don't think that I'll be able to accomplish much on this front in the short term. But I'll see what I can do to get the ball rolling in the right direction. Is this the appropriate document to update with an explanation of the problems? /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README Herb. -- 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/