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Re: ftpd now broken with current cygwin release.. I fixed my setup:
- From: "Gord Wait" <Gord_Wait at spectrumsignal dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:31:05 -0800
- Subject: Re: ftpd now broken with current cygwin release.. I fixed my setup:
I've got my ftpd working again,
no more "Can't set uid" when I try to ftp from a cygwin machine..
Under no circumstances should you take my description below as advice! Buyer beware!
Looks like I got caught in the unix versus windows password area..
My workaround was to
- make sure I set CYGWIN system environment variable to include "ntsec"
- added a local to my host PC account that I can use for ftp access.
To recap - before the update ftp was working, allowing me to use my network domain
login ID for both telnet and ftp to my host PC.
After I updated, telnet still worked fine, but ftp would reject my login
saying "Can't set uid"
I'm up and running by using a new local account on my host for ftp access.
I think the problem I have using my
Background:
My network login has local only admin priveledges on the host PC, but not on the network.
What also happens is that if I try a mkpasswd -d I get a few of the real network
admin account names followed by a permission denied (ie our network domain server won't let
me sniff the domain account list?) , so I'm unable
to build /etc/passwd with real values from my own windows network account. I think this
is the crux of my issue..
Since I have admin priveleges on my host pc, it was simple to add a new local
account for ftp..
Anyhow, I'm up and running ftpd again. Feel free to correct me on the details above..
Gord Wait
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