Re: NFS/SSHD interaction

[Dominik StraÃer <dominik dot strasser at onespin-solutions dot com>]

Am 18.02.2014 15:26, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Feb 18 15:20, Dominik StraÃer wrote:
> > Hi Corinna,
> > Am 18.02.2014 13:43, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> > > On Feb 18 13:35, Dominik StraÃer 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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