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Re: HELP: sshd/multi-user how-to


On Sat, 10 May 2003, richard dje wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup a cvs server on cygwin over ssh.
>
> I have cygwin v1.3.22.1 installed on a win2k box.
> I also installed the latest version of openSSH, and all related packages.
>
> I also learned that one need to create a windows account for each user
> willing to connect to the server.
>
> In order to do some testing i just created 2 accounts on the windows
> machine,say USER1 and USER2.
>
> To enable connections through ssh one need to correctly setup 'sshd'. For that
> USER1 ran 'ssh-host-config', since /etc/ssh_host_* files must be
> read/write-able by only one account. Normally that user should have been
> 'root'. Browsing the web, i saw that it was not that simple
> on cygwin (Please correct me if i am wrong).
>
> Files
> /etc/ssh_host_key,
> /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key,
> /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
>
> should not be group and world-accessible.
>
> I then launched the following two commands
> $ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
> $ mkgroup -l > /etc/group
>
> Their content looks OK.
>
> I then gathered USER1 and USER2 ssh2-rsa publickeys and put them in
> their respective $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2 (on the server machine).
>
> The windows machine was then booted on USER1 account in order to be able
> to start 'sshd' by means of '/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start'
>
> Connecting remotely to USER1 account by the following command worked just fine
> $ ssh -v USER1@server_ip_address
>
> But trying to do the same for USER2 by using
> $ ssh -v USER2@ser_ip_address
> just failed, since i am asked to provide a password.
> The above command output showed me that the ssh2-rsa publickey auth just
> failed.
>
> QUESTION:
> - Is the above configuration feasible ?
>   assuming USER1 is a poweruser,
>   USER2, USER3, ..., USERN are simple user.
>
> - Does cygwin/cvs works fine in server mode using 'ext' protocol (ssh) ?
> - Security-wise is (cygwin/cvs server / ssh) a good choice ?
>
> Thank You In Advance for your feedback and or help. :-)
> regards,
> -Richard

Richard,

FYI, on Cygwin, root = SYSTEM (uid 18).  That is also the account all
services (including sshd) usually run under.  Read
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html> for details.
	Igor
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