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Re: MS Windows 2k3 domain users issue
MyStiC wrote:
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)"
It's not clear whether your '/etc/groups' file is up-to-date on your XP
machine. Try running 'mkgroup -l -d >/etc/group'. If you have trouble
XP machine is at my office and the w2k3 server is at my residence.
The 'etc/group' file on the XP box was build local to the machine and
the domain it is connected to as well as the password file. According
to the documentation I've seen on this, the client side (connecting
from) 'group & passwd' files do not 'participate' in the
authentication to the server. That the 'server side' is unable to
properly validate the incoming client credentials against the 'server
side' '/etc/group & /etc/passwd' files.
So you're saying that the user you're connecting to your server with is
in the '/etc/passwd' file on the server and that the '/etc/group' on
that server contains the group specified in the '/etc/passwd' for that
user?
doing this, check if you need to specify your domain as well.
Example of SSH connection process:
SSH ssh_server_domain_name -l username
adding the @ and domain behind the username also does not work.
Administrators have no problem connecting, but no other users can.
My reference to the domain was relative to generating proper '/etc/passwd'
and '/etc/group' files on your server for the users in question. See
'man mkpasswd' and 'man mkgroup'.
Can a non-domain user connect? Sounds to me like this is a permissions
issue. Have you checked that Cygwin thinks the user has access to his/her
home directory, etc?
You may also find it useful to run a version of the server with
verbosity/debugging turned on so you can see any messages that may get
generated. It's often helpful in these cases.
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