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Re: sshd: fatal: seteuid XXX : No such device or address
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: renaud dot rolles at giraudbtp dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:56:52 +0300
- Subject: Re: sshd: fatal: seteuid XXX : No such device or address
- References: <011a01d4da5a$96247330$c26d5990$@giraudbtp.com> <20190314121034.GG3785@calimero.vinschen.de> <014e01d4da69$965ee650$c31cb2f0$@giraudbtp.com> <576975390.20190314171124@yandex.ru> <018f01d4da73$97704ac0$c650e040$@giraudbtp.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, renaud.rolles@giraudbtp.com!
>> Please remove /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. They are no longer
>> necessary, unless you have some very special needs, and even then, they
>> only needed for that one or two accounts you need special treatment for.
> They dont exists.
Then my next guess is that you'll have to reestablish your trust with
`passwd -R`. There's not many places where and what can be "saved" :)
>> The main security concern is, why your Administrator user:
>> 1. have password, and
>> 2. is not disabled?
> Why would i disable Administrator, it's the only local account, the server
> isn't in any domain and without password it doesn't seem secure at all.
Create a different local account, with necessary password and permissions,
then reset password on local Administrator account and disable it.
As for why, Administrator is the only local account with super-user
permissions that is guaranteed to exist. Windows uses it in case something
gone REALLY wrong, such as AD database recovery procedures.
It is easy enough to enable a locked account with offline tools, if your system
gone into such disrepair, that you can no longer even boot it, and need a
LiveCD to login to local SAM environment.
But recovering a lost Administrator password is a nontrivial endeavor, and
chances to brind system into a working state without complete reinstall are
diminishing rather quick.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, March 14, 2019 17:49:16
Sorry for my terrible english...
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