Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

Fri Aug 1 19:34:00 GMT 2003

Larry Hall wrote:
> 1. SYSTEM is the account that sshd runs as, not administrator.

Hmm, perhaps it's just a coincidence then that Administrator permissions 
correspond with sshd permissions.
> 2. Only the owner of the private key files in .ssh should have 
> permissions
> to access these files. Public key files should be readable by anyone.
> You'll want to check the permissions on these files relative to the
> above.

We got things working by opening up public access to 
/home/some-user/.ssh/authorized_keys, and perhaps that's sufficient, 
although I'm still concerned about the difference in behavior across my 
two installations. I have limited experience with cygwin (or Windows in 
general), but on Linux in my experience sshd turns up its nose at 
non-private .ssh directories, or else I would have tried that sooner.
$CYGWIN is set to "binmode ntsec tty", so that shouldn't be the problem. 
> 3. Generally, you should read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

I've been through the FAQ and User's Guide but couldn't find an answer 
to my question. Perhaps I should read both straight through for a more 
rounded understanding of what's going on; I was just hoping someone had 
experienced this before and knew the magic incantation to correct it. :-)
-myk
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