Domain change: permission denied in sshd

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> We use opensshd to remote admin windows systems. But If the SID is 
> changed we have the following problems:
> - I can log in but we can see 'Could not chdir to home directory 
> /home/Administrateur: Permission denied'. And key based auth works even 
> if the home directory is not readable (?!)
> - There's no way to update /etc/passwd via ssh to update the SID: 
> Permission denied
> - So the only way seems to manually update the file from Windows :-(


Right.  If the SID that owned the file no longer exists, that's a Windows
thing and the most efficient way to deal with it is from Windows.  Just
take ownership of the directory tree.


> Is there another way ? If I disable 'ntsec', would it help ?


Perhaps, but that's just delaying the inevitable.  Fix the Windows problem.


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