Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/12/07/00:08:54
May be here a reply that I got from the CVSNT list on this issue
(claiming that this is a problem of Cygwin/sshd):
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:45:36 -0800, Terris wrote:
>Are you using SSH password authentication or SSH public key authentication?
>
>cygwin's openssh server has a bug whereby if you use public key
>authentication, the user is the user's that's running the sshd daemon rather
>than the remote user. The cygwin folks claim it's due to a problem with NT,
>(funny how that's always the fall-back position for programmers)
>but it's actually a problem with their understanding of NT. They need to
>look at the CVSNT 1.11.1.2 pserver code.
>
>If you really have to use public key authentication, use
>VanDyke's vshell. http://vandyke.com
Bye,
Ulrich
>On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:35:40 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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>>On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:26:28PM +0200, Ulrich Jakobus wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> > I am running a CVS server on a Win2K machine connecting through
>>> SSH, where sshd is a standard installation of CYGWIN (i.e running
>>> under the SYSTEM account as configured by the ssh-config-host
>>> script).
>>
>>A Cygwin CVS or a native CVS? If it's a native CVS, the
>>below message that auther is SYSTEM would be ok. Changing
>>the user context w/o password uncovers a flaw in NT user name
>>handling. Cygwin just workarounds that.
>>
>>> However, when using the ~/.ssh/authorizedkeys file then CVS also
>>> works, no error messages. But the CVS log files contain
>>> date 2001.12.06.10.33.09; author SYSTEM; state Exp;
>>> i.e. the user SYSTEM appears here.
>>
>>Corinna
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