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Possible Workaround - SSH/SSHD: could not chdir to home directory:No such file or directory
- From: Philip Flip Kromer <flip at mrflip dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 02:01:52 -0600
- Subject: Possible Workaround - SSH/SSHD: could not chdir to home directory:No such file or directory
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
- Organization: UT-Austin CNLD
- Reply-to: flip at mrflip dot com
Hello,
I followed the recipe for setting up sshd under cygwin at
http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp
Everything worked swimmingly, except..
tick:~$ ssh me@localhost
me@localhost's password:
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
Could not chdir to home directory /h/me: No such file or directory
..for the error message about not being able to find the home directory.
sshd would still log me in, and would still set me in my home directory
(which does exist). The only problem (besides just annoyance) is that
it also would not find my ~/.ssh to do RSA authentication with.
Some other people have reported this error; see
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-09/msg00276.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-09/msg00032.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00758.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01274.html
Nobody seems to have posted a fix or reason for the error; but if I run
sshd under my account, rather than the SYSTEM account, it finds the home
directories and RSA authentication works.
I ran
$ cygrunsrv -R sshd
to stop the ssh daemon, then
$ chmod me:users /var/log/sshd.log
$ cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "SSHD" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a "-D" -u Me \
-e "CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty"
$ cygrunsrv -S sshd
to load and start the new sshd. I also made sure I had "Log on as
Service" rights on the local machine.
1) Is it in any way a bad idea to run sshd as a local user?
2) Why was the SYSTEM account not successfully finding my home dir?
It is mounted on a FAT32 partition, so I don't think it's a
permissions issue. I also tried various combinations of dirs in
/etc/passwd.
Well, if you're having this problem see if it helps to do this; and if I
am doing a Dumb Thing please let me know. My configuration info is below.
Cheers,
flip
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My /etc/passwd, system IDs elided:
everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
system:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
admins:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
admin:*:500:544:U-HOST\Administrator,S-1-5-21-...-500:/h/me:/bin/bash
me:*:1003:544:U-HOST\me,S-1-5-21-...-1003:/h/me:/bin/bash
guest:*:501:513:U-HOST\Guest,S-1-5-21-...-501:/h/guest:/bin/false
my /etc/group
everyone:S-1-1-0:0:
system:S-1-5-18:18:
none:S-1-5-21-...-513:513:
adminis:S-1-5-32-544:544:
guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
powers:S-1-5-32-547:547:
users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
usercyg:S-1-5-21-...-1201:1201:
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Environment variables [Control Panel/System Properties/System variables]:
SHELL /bin/bash.exe
HOME /h/me
CYGWIN binmode ntsec tty
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Output of "cygcheck -s":
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Apr 05 01:43:24 2002
Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600
Path: C:\unix\bin
C:\unix\sbin
C:\unix\bin
C:\unix\usr\local\bin
C:\unix\usr\X11R6\bin
c:\apps\utils
c:\windows
c:\windows\system32
c:\windows\system32\wbem
c:\apps\Applications\Matlab\bin\win32
SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
CYGWIN = `binmode ntsec'
HOME = `h:\me'
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = `\lib:\usr\lib\:\usr\local\lib:\usr\X11R6\lib\'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/h/me'
USER = `me'
Use `-r' to scan registry
a: fd N/A N/A
c: hd NTFS 4996Mb 84% CP CS UN PA FC Chairface
f: net NTFS 51677Mb 65% CP CS PA me
h: hd FAT32 9654Mb 60% CP UN THRAKKORZOG
m: hd FAT32 23285Mb 90% CP UN MRMENTAL
r: cd N/A N/A
u: net NTFS 51677Mb 65% CP CS PA users
. / user binmode,noumount
C:/unix / system binmode
C:/unix/bin /usr/bin system binmode
C:/unix/lib /usr/lib system binmode
Found: C:\unix\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\find.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\gcc.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\gdb.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\sh.exe
56k 2000/12/03 C:\unix\bin\cygbz21.0.dll
621k 2002/01/16 C:\unix\bin\cygcrypto.dll
45k 2001/04/25 C:\unix\bin\cygform5.dll
35k 2002/01/09 C:\unix\bin\cygform6.dll
19k 2002/02/20 C:\unix\bin\cyggdbm.dll
17k 2001/06/28 C:\unix\bin\cyghistory4.dll
20k 2002/01/13 C:\unix\bin\cyghistory5.dll
22k 2001/12/13 C:\unix\bin\cygintl-1.dll
22k 2002/01/29 C:\unix\bin\cygintl.dll
81k 2001/10/20 C:\unix\bin\cygitcl30.dll
35k 2001/10/20 C:\unix\bin\cygitk30.dll
25k 2002/03/17 C:\unix\bin\cygltdl-3.dll
26k 2001/04/25 C:\unix\bin\cygmenu5.dll
20k 2002/01/09 C:\unix\bin\cygmenu6.dll
156k 2001/04/25 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
175k 2002/01/09 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses++6.dll
226k 2001/04/25 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses5.dll
202k 2002/01/09 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses6.dll
15k 2001/04/25 C:\unix\bin\cygpanel5.dll
12k 2002/01/09 C:\unix\bin\cygpanel6.dll
40k 2001/11/21 C:\unix\bin\cygpcre.dll
39k 2001/11/21 C:\unix\bin\cygpcreposix.dll
108k 2001/06/28 C:\unix\bin\cygreadline4.dll
121k 2002/01/13 C:\unix\bin\cygreadline5.dll
66k 2001/11/20 C:\unix\bin\cygregex.dll
156k 2002/01/16 C:\unix\bin\cygssl.dll
253k 2002/02/10 C:\unix\bin\cygtiff3.dll
623k 2001/10/20 C:\unix\bin\cygtk80.dll
50k 2002/03/12 C:\unix\bin\cygz.dll
751k 2002/02/25 C:\unix\bin\cygwin1.dll
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.3.10
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 51
Shared data: 3
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002
Shared id: cygwin1S3
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
ash 20020131-1
...
bash 2.05a-3
...
cygrunsrv 0.95-1
cygutils 1.0.0-1
cygwin 1.3.10-1
...
openssh 3.1p1-1
openssl 0.9.6c-2
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