Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/31/04:27:03
On Jan 30 12:57, Perdue, Dave T. CIV NAVAIR 5.4.3, Bldg 2035, Rm 205, Cube 200 wrote:
> The Cygwin "whoami" command reports the correct username,
> however the Window Resource kit "whoami.exe" reports "NT
> Authority\SYSTEM" for the username when using a password
> authenticated ssh login. The user's SID is identical, just the
> username is different. I have read responses in the Cygwin mail
> lists that indicated that RSA authenticated logins should act
> this way (no access to network shares due to incomplete user
> impersonation) however it also indicated that password
> authentication should provide network share access. A minimal
> installation of Cygwin to support ssh (Cygwin with cygrunsrv and
> openssh) shows proper user context switching for Cygwin-1.5.12-1
> but fails using Cygwin-1.5.19-4. I do not have access to
> versions 13-17 so I cannot determine at what point full support
> of password authentication "broke".
I don't know what's wrong on your machine, but I tried on two different
machines under Windows 2000 and under XP, and the user context switch
works as expected in both cases; a native whoami returns SYSTEM for a
password-less login and the user name for a password login.
Corinna
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