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Re: chmod permission denied on windows 2008
On Jul 4 23:21, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Sorry seems I missed one critical element here. I thought I was doing
> all the tests under a cygwin prompt but in fact the chown's I was
> doing under an ssh'ed prompt. It works under a cygwin prompt on the
> desktop but fails when I'm ssh'ed in. So this actually looks like it
> may be a problem with ssh under 2008?
>
> I've attached the output from whoami in both cases. A privaledege
> missing from the sshd_server user may be? Note: ssh was installed
> with a slightly older than latest version of cygwin so if this has
> changed to support 2008 recently that could be where my problem lies.
No, it hasn't changed but there might be a problem in the seteuid()
function when running on 2008. I'll investigate.
When you login through ssh, are you using password or pubkey auth?
Corinna
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