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Re: OpenSSH - sftp not working for non-Administrator users
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:37:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: OpenSSH - sftp not working for non-Administrator users
- References: <4A6388BB.1050904@tigroup-usa.com> <4A63CD77.5090700@tigroup-usa.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:50:47PM -0500, Doug Lim wrote:
>After a bit more research on the problem, I found a discussion thread on
>the web discussing a similar problem from 2006. The difference is that
>the thread discusses scp connections dropping immediately after
>non-administrator authentication.
>
>http://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3782
>
>A response to a thread from March of this year indicates that copying
>all of the DLL files from cygwin\usr\bin to cygwin\usr\sbin as a
>workaround. I've copied the DLL files on my server per the workaround
>and now non-administrator users are able to use sftp.
>
>I've attached a copy of cygcheck.out from the server where this is
>happening.
That sounds like a pretty <insert negative adjective here> workaround.
Just setting the PATH to include cygwin's bin directory is likely to
work better. I know that someone in that thread said that they did that
already but I'm not convinced that they really knew what they were
doing.
cgf
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