1.7.1: problem with public key authentication on domain accounts

[Andrew Ng]

Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> On Jan 14 17:32, Andrew Ng wrote:
> > What I did was to change the group of my domain user to be "Administrators"
> > in
> > "/etc/passwd" rather than the domain group. This stops the following error
> > from
> > occurring every time I try to ssh to my machine as my domain user: -
> > 
> >       1 [main] -tcsh 13776 C:\Cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe: *** fatal error - 
> > couldn't
> > dynamically determine load address for 'WSAGetLastError' (handle 0xFFFFFFFF),
> > Win32 error 126
> > 
> > In fact making the group "Users" also works fine, just not the domain group.
> > Using the domain group seems to result in no file access permissions to the
> > system libraries and hence the error above when starting the "tcsh" shell.
> > 
> > This isn't ideal as I would really prefer to be using the domain group but
> > it's
> > better than having to start sshd manually which was my previous workaround. 
> > By
> > the way I'm running on Windows XP Pro x64 SP2.
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00334.html
> 
> Corinna
> 

Thanks for the link. That does explain what's going on in this situation. I
think your suggestion of adding the local BUILTIN\Users group would be nice.
I'm not too sure our IT will be too keen on adding a domain user for Cygwin
sshd purposes.

Regards,

Andrew


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