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Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation


On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:22:58AM -0400, you [Igor Pechtchanski] wrote:
> 
> Well, how about getting a SYSTEM-owned shell and checking? ;-)

I didn't think of that. Silly me.
 
> Make sure the SYSTEM user doesn't have any *user* mounts (by running
> "mount" from a SYSTEM-owned shell).

Spot on.

 C: on / type system (textmode)

(As I said, I didn't initially install cygwin on this machine, so I don't
know where the spurious mount came from.)

After changing /etc/ssh* back to SYSTEM's ownership, and removing the mount,
I can execute /usr/sbin/sshd from the "at /interactive" SYSTEM bash. 

Starting service as SYSTEM still fails:

 sshd : PID 929 : starting service `sshd' failed: execv: 1, Operation not
 permitted.

but I definetely got forward. Thanks.

> P.S. For instructions on getting a SYSTEM-owned shell, search Google for
> "at /interactive" on "cygwin.com".

Thanks, I would have had trouble figuring that out.


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