Soren, On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:14:02AM +0000, Soren A. wrote: > "Soren A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I understand that the ftpd has to have privs like "SYSTEM" and that > looking at past List messages, Jason Tischler says "run it as
s/Tischler/Tishler/ > LocalSystem" user. I don't know what OS Jason is talking about as there > is no such user "LocalSystem" on WinXP (yet XP is decended from NT). The built-in Windows "LocalSystem" account maps to the Cygwin "SYSTEM" user. > So in the /etc/proftpd.conf file I have lines like: > > User SYSTEM > Group Administrators The above should be correct. > but when I try to run proftpd, it refuses to start because it won't > change user context. The user I run Cygwin as apparently doesn't have > sufficient perms to change user context like this. Did you install proftpd as a NT service via cygrunsrv as indicated in the README? http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.9rc1.README > I don't know how to add such rights to the account: the user IS (*IS* > *IS* *IS*) an "Administrator" on the local system (was created that > way). See my next post. > Can anyone loan me a clue about what can be done to fix this, i.e. give > my user account sufficient perms to run proftpd as "SYSTEM"? You should be able to run proftpd under SYSTEM on XP Home. However, I do not have access to XP Home so I cannot verify this hypothesis. BTW, can you run other daemons such as inetd or sshd on this box? Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/