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Re: Son of son of SSH & Cygwin; scp and sftp


On 8 Aug 2002 at 11:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:03:31PM -0700, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
> > On 7 Aug 2002 at 15:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:34:44PM -0700, Stephen C. Biggs wrote:
> > > > Fanfare!!!
> > > > You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
> > > > setgid: Invalid argument
> > > 
> > > It looks as if the gid given in your /etc/passwd entry is not a
> > > valid group in /etc/group.
> > 
> > Where?  On the server or the client?
> 
> On the server.
> 
> >   Does the group on the client have 
> > to exist on the server?  
> 
> No.
> 
> >   Because the groups are valid in both places!

I misspoke.. the group on the cygwin box was 513 which didn't have a 
group entry...  Changing it to a valid group, I now don't get the setgid 
error, just the server dumping the connection, like usual.

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