Windows 2003 and sshd

[Stephen Treger]

Hello,

I had a RedHat box, the sole purpose was to be the intermediate between a 
secure host and public for moving data files in/out. Obviously this was 
done solely upon ssh (scp/sftp). For numerous reasons we decided to 
reconfigure as Windows 2003 Server with CygWin and openssh.

I took a XP workstation, loaded CygWin with the required openssh and 
openssl components, populated the passwd and group files from our AD using 
the -d options on mkpasswd and mkgroup respectively and then installed sshd 
as a service.

It was the coolest thing, I would ssh in as a user listed in the passwd 
file, but never having logged into the box before, and it automatically 
created a home directory and populated it with the skeleton files. First 
login produced some warnings, but after that the directory was set up 
properly and everything worked.

So I duplicate on the Windows 2003 box. Hmm, if I don't create the home 
directories manually users are instantly rejected. Some users out there 
claimed I must run a script (fixperms.sh) for it all to work properly and 
securely; I did and now am worse off than before. I get errors reprting no 
rights to the shell (though the user does have rx to the various shells).

So I thought I would start over with CygWin on the 2003 box, but when I 
deleted and reinstalled all the weird permissions still existed.

Anybody got a really good HOW-TO on this?
I need multiple users to have their own secure home directories, a couple 
of additional logins that are in a "admin" group and can control those 
directories. If I need to jail them, how do you do that under cygwin and is 
it feasible?


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