problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[vdu]

script ssh-user-config fails because user SYSTEM does not exit in my
'/etc/passwd' file, it was created using 'mkpasswd -d <domain>', which does
not create any SYSTEM user. I enter 'mkpasswd -l' to see if it creates a
SYSTEM user, and it does. So why 'mkpasswd -d <domain> does not ??

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Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[Reini Urban]

vdu schrieb:
> script ssh-user-config fails because user SYSTEM does not exit in my
> '/etc/passwd' file, it was created using 'mkpasswd -d <domain>', which does
> not create any SYSTEM user. I enter 'mkpasswd -l' to see if it creates a
> SYSTEM user, and it does. So why 'mkpasswd -d <domain> does not ??

As with every better software package a bit of cleverness from the 
user-side is recommended.
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RE: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[Dave Korn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner  On Behalf Of vdu
> Sent: 27 May 2004 09:16

> script ssh-user-config fails because user SYSTEM does not exit in my
> '/etc/passwd' file, it was created using 'mkpasswd -d 
> <domain>', which does
> not create any SYSTEM user. I enter 'mkpasswd -l' to see if 
> it creates a
> SYSTEM user, and it does. So why 'mkpasswd -d <domain> does not ??

  To explain the same thing twice in the same morning:

  SYSTEM is a local account; it has utmost (rooter-than-root) priviliges on
your local machine but it's not a member of the domain and has no access
rights there.

  Did you know you can combine both flags ?  "mkpasswd -l -d" should work
for you.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[vdu]

Sorry guys, I did not know this was a CYGWIN newsgroup for experts...
Could you tell me where is the CYGWIN newsgroup for dummies ?!?!

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"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> wrote in message
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner  On Behalf Of vdu
> > Sent: 27 May 2004 09:16
>
> > script ssh-user-config fails because user SYSTEM does not exit in my
> > '/etc/passwd' file, it was created using 'mkpasswd -d
> > <domain>', which does
> > not create any SYSTEM user. I enter 'mkpasswd -l' to see if
> > it creates a
> > SYSTEM user, and it does. So why 'mkpasswd -d <domain> does not ??
>
>   To explain the same thing twice in the same morning:
>
>   SYSTEM is a local account; it has utmost (rooter-than-root) priviliges
on
> your local machine but it's not a member of the domain and has no access
> rights there.
>
>   Did you know you can combine both flags ?  "mkpasswd -l -d" should work
> for you.
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
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>
>




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Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[Thorsten Kampe]

* vdu (2004-05-27 15:15 +0100)
> Sorry guys, I did not know this was a CYGWIN newsgroup for experts...
> Could you tell me where is the CYGWIN newsgroup for dummies ?!?!

It's over here!?!? ->
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html


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RE: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[Dave Korn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of vdu
> Sent: 27 May 2004 14:15

> "Dave Korn" <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR> wrote in message

> >   To explain the same thing twice in the same morning:
> >

> Sorry guys, I did not know this was a CYGWIN newsgroup for experts...
> Could you tell me where is the CYGWIN newsgroup for dummies ?!?!

  That wasn't meant to be any kind of a flame and I don't know why you
thought it was; I was just mentioning that the exact same thing had just
come up in another context in a oh-look-isn't-that-funny way.  I gave you a
perfectly straight answer to a straight question.


    cheers, 
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Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[Reini Urban]

Dave Korn schrieb:
>>Sorry guys, I did not know this was a CYGWIN newsgroup for experts...
>>Could you tell me where is the CYGWIN newsgroup for dummies ?!?!

This is a mailinglist and no newsgroup. Dummy questions which bear the 
answer in the question itself are flamed in dummy newsgroups also.

>   That wasn't meant to be any kind of a flame and I don't know why you
> thought it was; I was just mentioning that the exact same thing had just
> come up in another context in a oh-look-isn't-that-funny way.  I gave you a
> perfectly straight answer to a straight question.

Has was certainly trampling on my cgf-style answer.
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Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[vdu]

> This is a mailinglist and no newsgroup.
>
I am using outook express to read what you call a "mailinglist", and in OE
they call it newsgroup!
So it's a mailinglist for you, and a newsgroup for me.

Everybody agrees ?

Let's talk about cygwin now...
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Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[Thorsten Kampe]

* vdu (2004-05-28 11:59 +0100)
>> This is a mailinglist and no newsgroup.
>>
> I am using outook express to read what you call a "mailinglist", and in OE
> they call it newsgroup!

"In OE" "they" call mailing lists mailing lists and newsgroups
newsgroups. OE is able to read both: mail and news (and does an
incredibly bad job with both).

> So it's a mailinglist for you, and a newsgroup for me.

Only if you want to show the whole world that you don't have the
slightest idea what you're doing.
 
> Everybody agrees ?

It's a mailing list - so there is nothing to agree or disagree upon.

By the way (to further confuse you): Gmane offers a
mail-to-news-gateway for this mailinglist. Of course it's still a
mailing list - even if you read it via Gmane.


Thorsten
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Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

[Andrew DeFaria]

Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * vdu (2004-05-28 11:59 +0100)
>
>>> This is a mailinglist and no newsgroup.
>>
>> I am using outook express to read what you call a "mailinglist", and 
>> in OE they call it newsgroup!
>
> "In OE" "they" call mailing lists mailing lists and newsgroups 
> newsgroups. OE is able to read both: mail and news (and does an 
> incredibly bad job with both).

Sometimes, due to management pigheadedness, you're stuck using only the 
software that they allow you to use.

>> So it's a mailinglist for you, and a newsgroup for me.
>
> Only if you want to show the whole world that you don't have the 
> slightest idea what you're doing.

Maybe, then again see my previous post. He may be using a true newsgroup!

>> Everybody agrees ?
>
> It's a mailing list - so there is nothing to agree or disagree upon.

It's a true newsgroup to me! It may be a mail <-> newsgroup gateway but 
from my end it's strict NNTP.

> By the way (to further confuse you): Gmane offers a 
> mail-to-news-gateway for this mailinglist. Of course it's still a
> mailing list - even if you read it via Gmane.

Bingo! But again, from my end it looks like NNTP, smells like NNTP and 
responds to NNTP. In effect, except for people stating it's a mailing 
list it is indistinguishable from any other NNTP group.

YMMV
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