Re: system account files mystery

2006-12-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, dsacks wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: dsacks wrote: fyi, this is all about trying to get sshd to accept incoming connections. I want to use winscp into my xp box to move files. I am very confused about what password sshd would

Re: system account files mystery

2006-12-02 Thread dsacks
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system account files mystery

2006-11-30 Thread dsacks
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Re: system account files mystery

2006-11-30 Thread Andrew Louie
dsacks dennis at calico-consulting.com writes: wait, if I try to vi /etc/sshd_config now I cannot write it, because it is owned by SYSTEM and has restrictive rights. How do I edit system files now? I don't really grok the permission world in cygwin and how unixy permissions and users

Re: system account files mystery

2006-11-30 Thread dsacks
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Re: system account files mystery

2006-11-30 Thread dsacks
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Re: system account files mystery

2006-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
dsacks wrote: fyi, this is all about trying to get sshd to accept incoming connections. I want to use winscp into my xp box to move files. I am very confused about what password sshd would use - does it use windows authentication or does it expect to find passwords in /etc/passwd? Can I choose?

Re: system account files mystery

2006-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
dsacks wrote: No, that didn't occur to me - and it seems to work. How does the permission system work?! http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton