From: Michael Hoffman <cygwin-hoffman@sneakemail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: 1.7.9: login via ssh allows Administrator privileges
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20111009T203606-94@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E91A543.4050200@t-online.de>
Christian Franke <Christian.Franke <at> t-online.de> writes:
> Michael Hoffman wrote:
> > When I log in via ssh I find I have Administrator privileges:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Is there a way to turn this off or remove myself from the Administrators and
> > root groups? I prefer not to have administrative access unless I explicitly
> > request it.
>
> Restarting the shell through cygdrop from cygutils package may help:
>
> # exec cygdrop /bin/bash -l
Thanks for the helpful response! I was able to get the behavior I wanted by
adding this to /etc/sshd_config:
ForceCommand /bin/bash /etc/ssh-cygdrop
and putting this in /etc/ssh-cygdrop:
exec cygdrop ${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND:-"$SHELL"}
Thanks again!
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-09 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-09 0:25 Michael Hoffman
2011-10-09 13:45 ` Christian Franke
2011-10-09 18:38 ` Michael Hoffman [this message]
2011-10-13 19:06 ` Christian Franke
2011-10-09 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
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