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Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using
>> the following script:
>>
>> $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe
>> #!/usr/bin/bash
>> while :
>> do
>> ? /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/netstat -an | grep 192\.168\.0\.1:139 \
>> ? ? | grep LISTENING> ?/dev/null
>> ? if (( $? )); then
>> ? ? /usr/bin/ssh -v -v -v -x -i/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa -2 \
>> ? ? ? -L 192.168.0.1:139:127.0.0.1:139 -N remote_user@remote.host 2>&1&
>> ? fi
>> ? /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/netstat -an | grep 192\.168\.0\.1:3306 \
>> ? ? | grep LISTENING> ?/dev/null
>> ? if (( $? )); then
>> ? ? /usr/bin/ssh -v -v -v -x -i/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa -2 \
>> ? ? ? -L 192.168.0.1:3306:127.0.0.1:3306 -N remote_user@remote.host 2>&1&
>> ? fi
>> ? sleep 300
>> done
>>
>> The script works fine at the command line, but fails when running as a
>> service. ?My vain attempt to gather info (-v -v -v) only yields:
>>
>> Permission denied, please try again.
>> Permission denied, please try again.
>> Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password).
>>
>> in the service log (all three lines for each instance of an ssh command).
>>
>> SYSTEM should have access to id_rsa:
>>
>> $ getfacl id_rsa
>> # file: id_rsa
>> # owner: user
>> # group: Domain Users
>> user::rw-
>> group::---
>> group:SYSTEM:r--
>> mask:rwx
>> other:---
>>
>> $ ls -l id_rsa
>> -rw-------+ 1 user Domain Users 1679 Dec 13 13:40 id_rsa
>>
>> But, id_rsa was generated as "user", not as "SYSTEM," so I'm wondering
>> if SYSTEM needs it's own private RSA key, and how one would go about
>> generating one, since I don't seem to be able to su to the SYSTEM
>> user.
>
> Correct. ?What you propose could be a work-around for your case. ?Check
> out the link below for how to create a SYSTEM-owned shell that you can
> then experiment with.
>
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg01132.html>

Brilliant!  That's exactly what I was looking for and it totally did
the trick.  TY!

FWIW, I had to modify the shortcut to use full paths to the date and
sleep commands.

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