On Feb 24 07:44, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 02/24/2010 02:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 23 12:35, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>On 02/23/2010 12:01 PM, Jukka Inkeri wrote: > >>>If your server is member of domain, howto make users, sshd, (which > >>>order) ... without setuid problem when using publickey auth ? cyg_server > >>>and sshd - domain user or local or both, ??? > >> > >>In order for the SSH server to switch user context to a domain user, > >>the service's user (cyg_server) must be a domain user with the rights > >>outlined in 'ssh-host-config'. I'm not sure if it's a requirement that > >>the 'sshd' user also be a domain user. I've never played with that. > > > >I added a FAQ entry lately: > > > >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain > You might want to change that to: > > $ mkpasswd -l -d your_domain>> /etc/passwd > $ mkgroup -l -d your_domain>> /etc/group > > so as not to destroy whatever the user had in /etc/{passwd,group}.
IMHO that's not a good idea. The passwd and group files should be regenerated at this point to get a stable, well-defined state, and then you can re-add any local changes at your heart's content. YMMV, of course. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple