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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  1 07:14, Andrwe Lord Weber wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a function to login as a user from the cygwin bash-shell?
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is I want to connect to M$ XP using ssh public key
>> authentication.
>> The connection itself is working fine but I can't use shares because of
>> missing rights.
>> I figured out that the login process isn't a real Windows login if you
>> use a public key authentication so you don't have exactly the right the
>> normal user has.
>> After some research I found some mails in mailing lists talking about
>> this problem but there was just the solution to use net use
>> \\computer\share /USER:user password
>> to get a share but this possibility doesn't work for me.
>> That is why I got the idea to start a script, program or something like
>> that after the user authenticated itself which authenticates the user to
>> Windows.
>> Therefore I was hoping that cygwin already has a function to
>> authenticate a user.
>>      
>
> Maybe Cygwin 1.7 has what you're looking for:
>
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview
>
>
> Corinna
Thank you Corinna,
it seems exactly to be what I'm looking for.
I'll test it.


Andrwe

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