OpenSSH - sftp not working for non-Administrator users

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Doug Lim wrote:
>After a bit more research on the problem, I found a discussion thread on 
>the web discussing a similar problem from 2006. The difference is that 
>the thread discusses scp connections dropping immediately after 
>non-administrator authentication.
>
>http://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3782
>
>A response to a thread from March of this year indicates that copying 
>all of the DLL files from cygwin\usr\bin to cygwin\usr\sbin as a 
>workaround. I've copied the DLL files on my server per the workaround 
>and now non-administrator users are able to use sftp.
>
>I've attached a copy of cygcheck.out from the server where this is 
>happening.

That sounds like a pretty <insert negative adjective here> workaround.

Just setting the PATH to include cygwin's bin directory is likely to
work better.  I know that someone in that thread said that they did that
already but I'm not convinced that they really knew what they were
doing.

cgf

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