X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
Date:	Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:49:27 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Problem with ssh and public key authentication
Message-ID:	<20060629164927.GI18873@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<0B6E8E0E306CD044B4CE0552D5DC9D6C98FC65 AT catoexm06 DOT noam DOT corp DOT platform DOT com>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<0B6E8E0E306CD044B4CE0552D5DC9D6C98FC65@catoexm06.noam.corp.platform.com>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.4.2i
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Jun 29 11:21, Robert Lurin wrote:
> While doing a proof of concept with our product (LSF, a batch management system), we found the following problem, on a system with Openssh installed:
> - we open an ssh session with public key authentication (no password entry)
> - we try to submit a job and the submission fails because the submission command is unable to determine the submission account (actually it thinks the submission account is NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, the local system account)
>  
> I found the following mail which exactly matches our problem (after changing the user, the Win32 API still returns the original user) 
> http://www.cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt/2001-December/000077.html
> 
> , but it's quite old..
>  
> I would like to know if this problem is still present in the current version of Cygwin, running on a Windows 2000 system, and if there is any work-around.

It's still present and there's no known workaround except logging in
using password authentication.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -