RE: Only one account has access

Ben,
 
I should have thought of this myself. This merge of MS Windows and open
source has me a little intimidated. I've only seen/played with Unix in
school (some time ago), but I've been working/playing with MS OS's since my
childhood (DOS 2.0). I'm complete awe of the Open Source community.
 
The event log revealed that the login attempt was being blocked by both
permissions and a bad config of the passwd file. I was attempting to change
the user's home directory to /cygdrive/e/<username> (Cygwin is installed on
C:), however I changed the wrong entry and it was trying to execute the
user's directory (as in /bin/bash). duh
 
Many thanks,
 
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Voigt [mailto:bvoigt@kas.com]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:00 PM
To: ssh-l@erdelynet.com
Subject: RE: Only one account has access

Jason,
 
Turn on Windows 2000 auditing, at least temporarily, for the entire cygwin
directory tree, and you'll get a message in the Security event log detailing
what user failed to access what file, and what permission is needed. You
may also need to audit %SYSTEMROOT% and its subdirectories.
 
Ben
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: ssh-l-admin@erdelynet.com [mailto:ssh-l-admin@erdelynet.com]On Behalf
Of Jason Hazlewood
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:59 PM
To: 'ssh-l@erdelynet.com'
Subject: Only one account has access

Hello Erdelynet,

I've installed Cygwin on a Windows 2000 server and am able to connect using
the Putty (specifically psftp), but only my local admin account has access.
I do not need domain users to have access to this as yet, but no other local
accounts can access using Putty. I've added groups and users using mkpasswd
and mkgroup. I always get the same result if I'm not using the local admin
account, "Access denied." After exhausting my login attempts I receive:

Fatal:Server sent disconnect message
Type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR)
"Too many authentication failures for <username>"

I get this even if I add the local user to the local admin group.

I ran the setup under my own credentials. When I run "ssh localhost" I am
prompted for my password. When I give the password reply I receive,
"Permission denied, please try again."

Since I can't find anything exactly like this in the archives, it gives me
the sinking feeling that I've missed something obvious. Any help would be
appreciated.

Regards,

Jason

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