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Re: groups and permissions...
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: melchior <entropy at iamagloworm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:52:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: groups and permissions...
- References: <05E694BC-5DA8-11D7-B08D-0003934983C2@iamagloworm.com>
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:23:46PM +0900, melchior wrote:
> Hi there guys...
>
> i'm cross posting, and i'm sorry to those of you who also subscribe to
> ssh-l. just hoping someone here might be able to lend a hand. thanks.
>
> so, i want to run ssh under cygwin on a win xp
> computer. but i am having problems... specifically with groups, at least
> that's what i think. You can see that the cygwin is having a problem with
> the group system:system.... and also below are the results of things that
> might be beneficial. I'm not sure how things are supposed to look in
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group so any help would be greatly appreciated.
> thanks.
>
> [Melchior at magi]~:{40}:$ ssh entropy at localhost
> entropy at localhost's password:
> Last login: Sun Mar 23 22:23:41 2003 from localhost
> setgid: Invalid argument
> Connection to localhost closed.
>
> ---------------
>
> [Melchior at magi]~:{65}:$ ssh-host-config -y
> chown: `system.system': invalid group
> Generating /etc/ssh_config file
> Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
> However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
> For more info on privilege separation read
> /usr/doc/openssh/README.privsep.
>
>
> [Melchior at magi]~:{58}:$ groups
> mkgroup
This indicates that you should run mkgroup to create /etc/group:
mkgroup -l > /etc/group
Pierre
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