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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 16:47:55 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@cygnus.com>
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To: norbert.bladt@usa.net
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Subject: Re: OpenSSH2.1.1p4 - NT to NT: Problem
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norbert.bladt@usa.net wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I did some debugging and now I know why RhostsAuthentication
> (and RhostsRSAAuthentication) does not work between two
> NT systems over here.
> Regardless of the setting in the configuration file
> (sshd_config) the server is disabling both authentication methods
> as soon as the client does not connect from a priviledged port.
> On UNIX, ssh runs as root via "set userid" and that's why there
> is no problem from, e.g. Linux or Reliant-UNIX to NT.
> 
> However, how to achieve this between NT systems ?
> Has anybody gotten this to work ?
> I tried running the ssh client as Administrator but that
> didn't change anything on the server side.

This can't help since the NT specific code doesn't contain
any special code for administrator or members of the admins
group.

If somebody knows a solution, please post it to the mailing list.

However, I would be able to change the rhosts code, obviously.
I will have a look into that.

Corinna

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