X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 00:07:12 -0400 (EDT) From: William Sutton To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4655A077.60407@gmail.com> <4655A398.80504@u.washington.edu> <4656341F.2000603@u.washington.edu> <46565B7E.906@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Although if you do want the standard bash dotfiles (.bashrc, .bash_history, .bash_profile), just copy them from /etc/skel to your new user directory and set owner/group based on the new user owner/group. -- William Sutton On Thu, 24 May 2007, René Berber wrote: > Dan Miller wrote: > > > Ok....Rene you are the woman! Thank you so much. > > Er ... actually René is a male name, Renee is the female equivalent (I know, > there is Rene Russo and others that have the wrong name, but what do they know, > the name comes from France). > > > I was sort of blowing > > off the event log because it appeared that windows couldn't determine > > what the problem was...but at the very end it said user dan not allowed > > because shell /bin/bash is not executable. so I chmod 700 /bin/bash.exe > > and I'm in!! It worked It actually worked!! :-) Any idea why this was > > set up this way...doesn't seem to be a problem I've come across in other > > peoples efforts to get this going. > > No, I've never seen this, very strange. I have 750 for bash's permissions > (-rwxr-x---), your other user may have problems if both login at the same time. > > > Anyway, so now I can ssh into the computer as user dan which has a > > local login etc. I want to add another user that has a user account on > > the computer but is not allowed to login interactively to windows. Can > > you tell me how to do that? > > The user needs a password... and he might not have a home directory (on first > login it is created by the shell). > > > I can't seem to su within cygwin to rerun > > ssh-user-config. How do I set up another user in cygwin and then switch > > to that user and run the ssh-user-config script? I made a folder in the > > home directory for the new user, but it doesn't have the standard bash > > files. Thanks again! > > The new user doesn't need to run ssh-user-config, that only creates the default > ~/.ssh directory with some defaults, and the keys which are only necessary for > public key authentication. You can login as the second user as it is now, just > make sure the home is the correct one, then he can run the script. > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/