sshd w/o admin?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Aaron Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>> Aaron Davies wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>   ^^^^^^
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>  Thanks!
> 
> is this even possible in gmail? if not, i'll do it manually for now.

Not sure.  Probably not.  But I don't know much about gmail so I wouldn't
put too much stock in anything I might say about it.

<snip>

> I tried moving all my keys aside (outside of ~/.ssh). Now "ssh
> localhost" on the local box takes my password, prints the banner, then
> quits with "Connection to localhost closed."
> 
> % ssh localhost
> adavies@localhost's password:
> Last login: Thu Feb 19 10:41:39 2009 from localhost
> Connection to localhost closed.
> 
> The same setreuid error is left in the event log
> 
> Why exactly does it need to setreuid to me when it's already me? This
> sshd process is started by and running under the same id it's trying
> to become.

I'm not sure.  I thought this was because it was trying to use pub-key
authentication, which is why I suggested password.  So I can't help
here.

>> Also, FWIW, using a remote drive as your home adds a level of
>> complication.  You may want to try to create a local home directory,
>> point to this in your '/etc/passwd', and rerun 'ssh-user-config' if
>> you continue to have problems.
> 
> I'll give this a try next, I guess.

It's worth a shot.  If you get things working that way, you can
always try going back to your remote home and set 'smbntsec' in
your CYGWIN environment variable.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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