Re: "Unknown" user after logging into sshd under Vista

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Daniel Noll wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> The archives do have a number of Vista-related SSH problems which have solved 
> the issue of getting it installed, but I haven't been able to solve the issue 
> I found next.
>
> Here's the options I used to configure the service...
>
> > [508] daniel@Monolith:~> ssh-host-config
> > Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes
> > Generating /etc/ssh_config file
> > Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes
> <cut>
> > Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes
> > Generating /etc/sshd_config file
> <cut>
> > Do you want to install sshd as service?
> > (Say "no" if it's already installed as service) (yes/no) yes
> <cut>
> > Should this script create a new local account 'sshd_server' which has
> > the required privileges? (yes/no) yes
> <cut>
> > Which value should the environment variable CYGWIN have when
> > sshd starts? It's recommended to set at least "ntsec" to be
> > able to change user context without password.
> > Default is "ntsec".  CYGWIN=
> <cut>
>
> However on logging in...
> > [503] daniel@Monolith:~> ssh localhost
> > Last login: Fri Oct  5 09:20:07 2007 from 127.0.0.1
> > Fanfare!!!
> > You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
> > Could not chdir to home directory /home/daniel: Permission denied
> > -bash: cd: /home/daniel: Permission denied
>
> Permissions on my home directory are correct as I can get into it via 
> Explorer.  The problem is elsewhere -- if I look in the process list, the 
> bash.exe process is running as user "(unknown)", not as my user account.
>
> I'm not sure what to do from here.  What part of Cygwin is responsible for 
> changing the user ID when a user logs in via SSH, and what is usually 
> responsible for it misbehaving?


OK, we now know the symptoms and the problem.  But we don't have any basic
configuration information to do some simple triage with.  In short:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Please read and follow the above guidelines, paying particular attention to
the part about *attaching* cygcheck output.

In the absence of the above, my WAG is that the user you are logging in as
(domain user perhaps?) is not in your '/etc/passwd' file.  See 'man passwd'
and the Cygwin Users Guide <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/> for more
details.  Ditto for '/etc/group'.



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