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RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0000
- Subject: RE: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?
Manel Rodero wrote:
> Why? Because its primary group is "mkgroup-l-d". So I need to change this
> first by running "mkpasswd -l" and "mkgroup -l". In this manner this
> domain account can create /home/pkuser and then create here a .ssh
> directory with the authorized_keys I need to implement public key
> authentication.
You know, you could have saved us all a LOT of wasted time if you had *told*
us you never bothered to setup the system's two most utterly vital
security-permissions-and-accounts-related files. Can't imagine _why_ you
thought to omit that insignificant little fact.
cheers,
DaveK
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