On 12/29/2014 9:07 AM, Ilya Dogolazky wrote: > Hi Ken! > > I followed your advise: > 1) Reinstalled windows again > 2) Started setup_x86-64.exe from cygwin web site > 3) Changed two things in the package list: > a) Changed version of package cygwin to 1.7.34.003 > b) Marked package "ssh" to be installed > 4) After installation started terminal (icon right click -> run as admin) > 5) Typed "ssh-host-config -y" > 6) Copied the output and attached to this e-mail > > The same problem as before: > System error 1376 has occurred. > The specified local group does not exist. > Adding user 'cyg_server' to local group 'root' failed! > > :-( > > By the way, very first message is quite funny: "it seems your account does > not > have these privileges". According to windows UI my account (the only one on > this > fresh installed machine) is an administrative one.
> $ ssh-host-config -y > > *** Warning: Running this script typically requires administrator privileges! > *** Warning: However, it seems your account does not have these privileges. > *** Warning: Here's the list of groups in your user token: > > None > root > Users This output comes from the following code, starting at line 619: # Make sure the user is running in an administrative context admin=$(/usr/bin/id -G | /usr/bin/grep -Eq '\<544\>' && echo yes || echo no) if [ "${admin}" != "yes" ] then echo csih_warning "Running this script typically requires administrator privileges!" csih_warning "However, it seems your account does not have these privileges." csih_warning "Here's the list of groups in your user token:" echo for i in $(/usr/bin/id -G) do /usr/bin/awk -F: "/[^:]*:[^:]*:$i:/{ print \" \" \$1; }" /etc/group done If you were really running in an elevated shell, I don't know why 544 didn't show up in the output of "id -G". Ken -- 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