Re: groups and permissions...

["Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:23:46PM +0900, melchior wrote:
> Hi there guys...
> 
> i'm cross posting, and i'm sorry to those of you who also subscribe to  
> ssh-l. just hoping someone here might be able to lend a hand. thanks.
> 
> 			so, i want to run ssh under cygwin on a win xp 
> 			computer. but i am  having problems... specifically with groups, at least 
> that's what i  think. You can see that the cygwin is having a problem with 
> the group  system:system.... and also below are the results of things that 
> might  be beneficial. I'm not sure how things are supposed to look in  
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group so any help would be greatly appreciated.  
> thanks.
> 
> [Melchior at magi]~:{40}:$ ssh entropy at localhost
> entropy at localhost's password:
> Last login: Sun Mar 23 22:23:41 2003 from localhost
> setgid: Invalid argument
> Connection to localhost closed.
> 
> ---------------
> 
> [Melchior at magi]~:{65}:$ ssh-host-config -y
> chown: `system.system': invalid group
> Generating /etc/ssh_config file
> Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
> However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
> For more info on privilege separation read  
> /usr/doc/openssh/README.privsep.
> 
> 
> [Melchior at magi]~:{58}:$ groups
> mkgroup

This indicates that you should run mkgroup to create /etc/group:
  mkgroup -l > /etc/group

Pierre


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