Re: Domain change: permission denied in sshd

[Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez at linbox dot com>]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Ludovic Drolez wrote:
>
> > Hi !
> >
> > We use opensshd to remote admin windows systems. But If the SID is 
> > changed we have the following problems:
> > - I can log in but we can see 'Could not chdir to home directory 
> > /home/Administrateur: Permission denied'. And key based auth works 
> > even if the home directory is not readable (?!)
> > - There's no way to update /etc/passwd via ssh to update the SID: 
> > Permission denied
> > - So the only way seems to manually update the file from Windows :-(
>
>
>
> Right.  If the SID that owned the file no longer exists, that's a Windows
> thing and the most efficient way to deal with it is from Windows.  Just
> take ownership of the directory tree.

Since the SID change is done with Sysprep, we have now a script which updates 
/etc/passwd during sysprep. Just updating with the new SID works !

Cheers,


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Ludovic DROLEZ                              Linbox / Free&ALter Soft
http://lrs.linbox.org


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