Antwort: Re: mutt and ssmtp on Cygwin on Windows Server 2003 'child exited 127'

[gert_de_boer@ch.schindler.com]

Hello Mr Ford,

Thanks for your reaction. It seemed so close to my understanding of the
problem, but alas, it still does not work.

I assume you meant this part of the openssh.README:

Important note for Windows 2003 Server users:
---------------------------------------------

2003 Server has a funny new feature.  When starting services under SYSTEM
account, these services have nearly all user rights which SYSTEM holds...
except for the "Create a token object" right, which is needed to allow
public key authentication :-(

There's no way around this, except for creating a substitute account which
has the appropriate privileges.  Basically, this account should be member
of the administrators group, plus it should have the following user rights:

        Create a token object
        Logon as a service
        Replace a process level token
        Increase Quota

I did not find an 'increase quota' right, I assumed 'adjust memory for
process'

Regards,

Gert de Boer
Systemadministration and Development
FI-TE
Schindler Lifts Switzerland Ltd
Zugerstrasse 13
CH-6030 Ebikon

Telephone: +41 (0)41 4453010
mailto: gert_de_boer@ch.schindler.com


                                                                                                                                       
                      Brian Ford                                                                                                       
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On Wed, 19 May 2004, gert_de_boer wrote:

> Somehow I do not succeed in configuring mutt or ssmtp with Cygwin on a
> Windows 2003 server.
>
> As an example of what happens:
>
> $ echo hallo | mutt -s new_test myname@mycompany.com
> Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.).
> Could not send the message.
>
> The error is exactly the same as when I have a wrong 'sendmail' defined
in
> my .muttrc on a server where cygwin runs without any problem.  However I
> defined it correct:
> set sendmail=/usr/sbin/ssmtp
>
> Executing ssmtp on its own delivers an empty mail at
myname@mycompany.com,
> so the error is not there.
>
> It all works without any problem on Windows XP and Windows 2000.
>
> So it seems something has changed in Windows 2003: for some reason mutt
> cannot trigger ssmtp to do its job.
>
> Something similar seems to happen between the CYGWIN cron service and the
> scripts it is supposed to start. Nothing happens, but if I look in the
> eventviewer I see the following order of events:
>
> PID 3188: (myaccount) RELOAD (tabs/myaccount)
>
> PID 3392: (myaccount) CMD (/home/myaccount/bin/test_mail.sh)
>
> PID 3392: (CRON) error (can't switchuser context)
>
> So it is just an idea of mine that somehow (some) programs are not able
to
> start others, due to some rigid security settings.
>
> BTW, all the above is done as with a group account with administrator
> rights on the server.

Please read the Windows 2003 Server section of
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README and see if that helps.  I know it
sounds weird, but trust me, it is relevant.

--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...




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