You need both local and domain accounts in Cygwin. Restore your local accounts (especially root) by re-running "/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done".
Then add your domain accounts by APPENDING (>>) to the passwd and group files. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Aggarwal Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 9:59 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: SFTP error 128 Hello: I set read & execute permission on C:\ for Domain Usera and set modify for Domain Users on C:\Cygwin but I am still getting this error. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Aggarwal > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:22 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: SFTP error 128 > > Hello: > > I have a Windows 2003 SBS server. > > I have set up cygwin SSHD so I can connect to it remotely. > > I can SSH and SFTP to the machine successfully using the Administrator > account. > > I want to set up a couple Domain Users to be able to SFTP files up to > the server. > > The users are in Active Directory so I first changed the security > policy to allow users to log on locally. > > I then created the password and group files using these commands from > the Cygwin shell using the Administrator account. > mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd > mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group > > Next, I logged in as one of the users, ran the cygwin shell and ran > ssh-user-config > > Now, from remote, I can ssh to the machine using the domain user's > account. > > But, when I try top SFTP, I get error 128. > > According to something I read on the Internet, this means the domain > user cannot execute the SFTP subsystem. > > I set permissions of read and execute for Domain Users on the entire > C:\Cygwin heirarchy to no avail. > > Any ideas what went wrong? > > Thanks, > Neil > > -- > Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk > email and reclaim your inbox. > Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/