RE: serious problem in current CVS

["Richard Campbell" <richard dot campbell at air2web dot com>]

> In case this is not already known, the current CVS has a serious
problem -- attempts to rsh or 
> ssh in to a machine running a cygwin1.dll compiled from it fail with
an error message regarding 
> a failed setgid() call.

If the user logging into the machine is listed in /etc/passwd with a
primary group not present 
in /etc/group, yes.  This is not new to the current CVS.

With openssh 3.9p1-2 and cygwin 1.5.12-1:

campbe_r@area51 $ cat /etc/passwd | grep campbe_r
campbe_r:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:11178:10513:Richard
Campbell,U-ATL\campbe_r,S-1-5-21-1060284298-1336601894-682003330-1178:/h
ome/campbe_r:/bin/bash
campbe_r@area51 $ cat /etc/group | grep 10513
Domain Users:S-1-5-21-1060284298-1336601894-682003330-513:10513:
campbe_r@area51 $ cat /etc/group | grep -v 10513 >/tmp/group2
campbe_r@area51 $ mv /tmp/group2 /etc/group
campbe_r@area51 $ ssh campbe_r@localhost
campbe_r@localhost's password: 
Last login: Fri Mar 18 15:35:19 2005 from localhost
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
setgid: Invalid argument
Connection to localhost closed.
campbe_r@area51 $ mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group
campbe_r@area51 $ cat /etc/group | grep 10513
Domain Users:S-1-5-21-1060284298-1336601894-682003330-513:10513:
campbe_r@area51 $ ssh campbe_r@localhost
campbe_r@localhost's password: 
Last login: Fri Mar 18 15:36:59 2005 from localhost
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
campbe_r@area51 $ logout
Connection to localhost closed.
campbe_r@area51 $ 

Summary: run mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group

-Richard Campbell.

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