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Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

From: Ville Herva <vherva at niksula dot hut dot fi>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:53:23 +0300
Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation
References: <3F299C67.1070700@aol.net> <3F29C4F1.8010805@cygwin.com> <02e101c357e0$82350730$6902a8c0@markonius> <3F2A868F.3050301@cygwin.com>
I think I have somewhat similar problem with setting up sshd. It must be
something stupid, but this has happened to me on two separate machines. As
it happens, someone else had initially set up cygwin on both of them, so I
don't know exactly what options were used (but I assume they are fairly
default). Another is NT4/SP6, the other is W2k/SP3, both use NTFS.

The problem: After I installed sshd with setup.exe, and run ssh-host-config,
I was unable to get the service running as SYSTEM user.

>From event log, I found this:
 User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
 sshd : PID 528 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 255, error 255.

/etc/ssh* was owned by SYSTEM, but if I changed all that to owned by user, I
was able to run "sshd -d -D" from command line as user. Also If I changed
the service to be executed as user, it started up just fine.

I already used a fair amount of time trying to work out what might have been
the cause (and I'm somewhat satisfied with sshd service running as user) so
I'm taking the lazy attitude and asking here whether someone here has seen
something like this or able to tell off-hand whgat might be the culprit...


-- v --

v@iki.fi

cygcheck output (some information censored):


Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Aug 01 18:52:13 2003

Windows NT Ver 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 6

Path:	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\usr\sbin
	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
	c:\WINNT40\SYSTEM32
	c:\WINNT40
	C:\cygwin\ntreskit
	.

C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec)
UID: 1003(<user>)       GID: 513(None)
513(None)             544(Administrators)

C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec)
UID: 1003(<user>)       GID: 513(None)
513(None)             544(Administrators)

SysDir: C:\WINNT40\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT40

CYGWIN = `ntea'
HOME = `c:\users\default'
PWD = `/home/<user>'

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
  (default) = `/cygdrive'
  cygdrive flags = 0x00000020
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\00
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\01
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\02
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\03
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\04
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\05
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\06
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\07
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\08
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\09
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0A
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0B
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0C
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0D
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0E
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0F
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\10
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\11
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\12
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\13
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\14
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\15
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\16
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\17
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\18
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\19
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1A
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1B
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1C
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1D
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
  (default) = `/'
  cygdrive flags = 0x0000002a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
  (default) = `C:\cygwin'
  flags = 0x00000008
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
  (default) = `C:\cygwin/bin'
  flags = 0x00000008
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
  (default) = `C:\cygwin/lib'
  flags = 0x00000008
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\00
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\01
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\02
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\03
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\04
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\05
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\06
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\07
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\08
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\09
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0A
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0B
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0C
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0D
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0E
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\0F
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\10
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\11
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\12
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\13
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\14
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\15
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\16
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\17
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\18
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\19
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1A
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1B
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1C
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts\1D

a:  fd           N/A    N/A                    
c:  hd  NTFS    8001Mb  88% CP CS UN PA FC     NOSPART
d:  hd  NTFS   17359Mb  74% CP CS UN PA FC     LIMPPU2
e:  hd  NTFS    8675Mb  21% CP CS UN PA        barracuda
f:  cd           N/A    N/A                    

.              /cygdrive  user    textmode,cygdrive
C:\cygwin      /          system  textmode
C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  textmode
C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  textmode
.              /          system  binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Not Found: cpp (good!)
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Not Found: gcc
Not Found: gdb
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Not Found: ld
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Not Found: make
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe

   58k 2002/05/07 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll
  848k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll
  645k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto.dll
  380k 2002/07/24 C:\cygwin\bin\cygdb-3.1.dll
  487k 2002/07/24 C:\cygwin\bin\cygdb_cxx-3.1.dll
   45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
   35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll
   76k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform7.dll
   28k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-3.dll
   30k 2003/07/26 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-4.dll
   19k 2003/03/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
   15k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-3.dll
   15k 2003/07/26 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-4.dll
   17k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
   20k 2002/10/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll
  945k 2003/06/18 C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
   22k 2001/12/13 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll
   28k 2002/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll
   26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
   20k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll
   48k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu7.dll
  156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
  175k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll
  226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
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  284k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll
   15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
   12k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll
   31k 2003/03/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel7.dll
   63k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll
   61k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll
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   22k 2002/06/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpopt-0.dll
  108k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
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  176k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl-0.9.7.dll
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   50k 2002/03/12 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
  948k 2003/03/18 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.3.22
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 78
        Shared data: 3
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix: 
        Build date: Tue Mar 18 09:20:11 EST 2003
        CVS tag: dontuse-21
        Shared id: cygwin1S3


Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
_update-info-dir     00190-1
ash                  20020731-1
base-files           1.3-1
base-passwd          1.1-1
bash                 2.05b-9
bzip2                1.0.2-2
cygrunsrv            0.96-1
cygutils             1.1.4-2
cygwin               1.3.22-1
diffutils            2.8.1-1
fileutils            4.1-1
findutils            4.1.7-4
gawk                 3.1.3-1
gdbm                 1.8.3-3
grep                 2.5-1
gzip                 1.3.3-4
inetutils            1.3.2-23
less                 378-1
libbz2_1             1.0.2-2
libdb3.1             3.1.17-2
libgdbm              1.8.0-5
libgdbm-devel        1.8.3-3
libgdbm3             1.8.3-3
libgdbm4             1.8.3-5
libiconv2            1.8-3
libintl1             0.10.40-1
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libncurses5          5.2-1
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libpcre              4.1-1
libpopt0             1.6.4-4
libreadline4         4.1-2
libreadline5         4.3-2
links                0.96-1
login                1.9-5
nano                 1.2.0-1
ncurses              5.3-1
openssh              3.6.1p1-2
openssl              0.9.7b-1
openssl096           0.9.6j-1
perl                 5.8.0-3
procps               010801-2
psutils              1.17-1
readline             4.3-2
rsync                2.5.6-1
rxvt                 2.7.10-3
sed                  4.0.7-1
sh-utils             2.0.15-3
shutdown             1.3-1
tar                  1.13.25-1
termcap              20021106-2
terminfo             5.3-3
texinfo              4.2-4
textutils            2.0.21-1
wget                 1.8.2-2
which                1.5-1
zip                  2.3-2
zlib                 1.1.4-1
zsh                  4.0.6-5

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