NFS/SSHD interaction

[Dominik Straßer]

Am 18.02.2014 15:26, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Feb 18 15:20, Dominik Straßer wrote:
>> Hi Corinna,
>> Am 18.02.2014 13:43, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>> On Feb 18 13:35, Dominik Straßer wrote:
>>>> Hi Corinna,
>>>> thanks for the pointer. I haven't yet fully understood the
>>>> credentials stuff. But can it have this result:
>>>> In the cygwin terminal:
>>>> ls -l /cygdrive
>>>> total 43
>>>> d---------+  1 TrustedInstaller TrustedInstaller     0 Feb 18 10:27 c
>>>> drwxr-x---  15 night            None              1024 Jan 23 22:53 k
>>>> drwxr-x---  52 night            None             24576 Feb 18  2014 n
>>>> drwxr-x--x  62 night            None             14336 Feb 17 13:57 s
>>>>
>>>> In the ssh:
>>>> ls -l /cygdrive
>>>> total 4
>>>> d---------+ 1 TrustedInstaller TrustedInstaller 0 Feb 18 10:27 c
>>> Keep in mind that the login via ssh is in another session than a desktop
>>> session.  If you want a user to see the automatically mounted drives in
>>> a ssh session, the ssh session needs the user's credentials.  This only
>>> works if the user mounts the required drives manually after login via
>> So what I am doing now is (in .bashrc)
>> /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/mount.exe '<nfs-path>' k:
>> mount k: /home/user1
>>
>> which seems to work.
>>> ssh, or if the login via ssh already has the credentials.  This is
>>> only the case when using method 3:
>>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd3
>>>
>>>
>> tried it, but didn't work:
>> $ passwd -R
>> [etc]
>> Enter your current password:
>> Re-enter your current password:
>> Storing password failed: Function not implemented
Hi Corinna,
> Did you *read* the aforementioned URL?  It explains that a non-admin
> needs cygserver to run passwd -R.  As an admin you can enter the
> password for other users, if you know it.  See additionally
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd
Of yourse I did :-), and I clicked on "Run as adminstrator" for the 
Cygwin shell (otherwise the error message was different: Storing 
password failed: bad file descriptor)

Regards

Dominik
>
>
> Corinna
>

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