Re: permission problems (and more)

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 04:43 PM 4/14/2004, you wrote:
>Running cygwin (on Windows 2000) for a few months, and
>finally decided that I wanted sshd and cron activated.
>
>Logged on as administrator and did:
>
>cron:
>cygrunsrv -I cron -p /bin/cron -a -D
>
>sshd:
>run the ssh-host-config script and answer the questions (I
>read several tutorials that all said about the same thing)


What about ssh-user-config?


>I did answer "tty ntsec" in response to the question about
>the CYGWIN environment string (instead of going through the
>environment variables string of system properties - and I
>noticed that it did not show up).

???

>When I rebooted the machine, neither of these would start
>(they both do appear in the service list, though). The errors:
>
>The cron service failed to start due to the following error: 
>Access is denied.

<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00379.html>


>The CYGWIN sshd service failed to start due to the following error:
>Access is denied.
>
>I have a rough idea of the problem (I don't think I have
>the right permissions on the necessary cygwin files).
>
>Can someone tell me:
>
>1. Who or what (service? system?) needs which permissions
>to make these work, and on which files?


/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README


>2. Does some way exist so that I can start and stop these
>as a regular user?


That's a Windows question.  But you have to think, why would you 
want a system where a regular user could start and stop services?


>3. Does any documentation exist on what permissions files
>should have (and can I recover from my present situation
>where I own most of the files as a regular user)?


/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README and/or check out the email archives.


>3a. Does some way exist for a regular user (I know that "su"
>doesn't work) to get access to edit important cygwin files
>without having to log off and long in as administrator?


Yes.  'ssh'. ;-)


>4. When I finally get sshd working, can I log in as a domain
>user (and if so, how do I differentiate between a domain user
>and a local user when logging onto the machine)?


Make sure they have different user names in Windows or edit your /etc/passwd
file to change the _name_ (only!) of one to something unique.




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