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Re: 1.5.12
On Oct 11 07:58, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Anyway, I found a workaround that may give some hints to the root cause.
> If I give Everyone read access to all keys along the following registry
> path:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
>
> then the proftpd login succeeds.
>
> This problem seems to be similar to one of the issues I found with exim:
>
> If the user "exim" is defined, it (or its group, or Everyone) needs
> to have execute access to exim and the dlls it uses, as well as read
> access to the registry keys (check with regedt32)
> 1. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock\Parameters
> 2. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters
> Lack of access causes the respective error messages
> 1. IPv4 socket creation failed: Operation not permitted
> 2. cannot find smtp/tcp service when starting daemon
I think there's nothing we can do about that. If there's no local
user profile and the user isn't logged in locally, there's no valid
HKEY_CURRENT_USER entry. Then you must be able to rely on HKLM.
Or do I miss something?
Corinna
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