Re: problems with a new account, sshd, mkpasswd, and login

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Daniel Danger Bentley wrote:

> I attempted to create a new account on my machine.  I added the user in XP.
> Then I did mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd.  I started and stopped sshd using net.
> Also, I may have inadvertantly used passwd on both the old and new account
> to change the passwd.  I have since mkpasswd -l'ed and passwd'ed each
> account to the password I want.  But when I ssh in, I can login to neither
> account.  Any ideas?

Daniel,

Do the accounts have valid SIDs?  Do they belong to groups that have valid
SIDs in your /etc/group file?  Is the default shell for each user
executable by that user?  Is a user's home directory accessible by that
user?  What does adding a '-vvv' flag to ssh show?

> Also, when I just use login to log into the new account, I get permission
> denied on /bin/bash.  Any ideas there?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan

Does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID> make things
clearer?
	Igor
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