Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

[Ville Herva]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:07:43AM -0400, you [Igor Pechtchanski] wrote:
>
> IIRC, the default installation of sshd as service used the event log for
> all output, rather than /var/log/sshd.log (though I'm not too sure on this
> one)...

It certainly seems to, in the event log, there are sshd generated entries.

> However, error code 255 means that the executable could not be executed.

Ack.

> Check the permissions on sshd ("ls -l /usr/sbin/sshd") 

 $ ls -l /usr/sbin/sshd
 -rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ mkgroup_   286720 May 22 23:44 /usr/sbin/sshd

That should be runnable by SYSTEM, right?

> and the mounts ("/", at least, should be a system mount).

 $ mount
 c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
 c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
 c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)

 $ echo $CYGWIN
 binmode ntsec tty



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