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Re: "Illegal User" when logging into sshd
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:58:44AM -0400, Prentis Brooks wrote:
> Here is the scenario:
>
> Running sshd out of cygrunsrv as system. sshd operating fine, performing
> both password and rsa authentication for any domain admin account that I add
> to /etc/passwd. I need to allow rsa authentication for a single non-domain
> admin account onto my member servers. The problem is that regardless of the
> authentication method, sshd reports a failed attempt for "illegal user foo".
>
> I have tried foo@host, domain\\foo@host, and even tried adding the user to the
> local Adminstrators group to see if I had a perm issue. The domain account
> was added to /etc/passwd in the following manner:
>
> mkpasswd -d | grep foo >>/etc/passwd
> and the home directory was created and chowned to that user, still no dice.
Did you restart sshd after creating the entry in /etc/passwd?
Under Cygwin processes get a copy of /etc/passwd and /etc/group
in the process memory on the first access to these files for
performance reasons. Later changes to these files aren't recognized
by a running process.
Corinna
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