Domain change: permission denied in sshd

[Ludovic Drolez]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 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.
> 

Since the SID change is done with Sysprep, we have now a script which updates 
/etc/passwd during sysprep. Just updating with the new SID works !

Cheers,


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Ludovic DROLEZ                              Linbox / Free&ALter Soft
http://lrs.linbox.org


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